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• ill-behaved adj. 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties.
  2. Software that bypasses the defined OS interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software....
• ext n. 1. [techspeak] Executable code, esp. a `pure code' portion shared between multiple instances of a program running in a multitasking OS.
  Compare English. 2. Textual material in the mainstream sense...
• ext: n. 1. [techspeak] Executable code, esp. a `pure code' portion shared between multiple instances of a program running in a multitasking OS.
  Compare {English}. 2. Textual material in the mainstream sense...
• ill-behaved: adj. 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties.
  2. Software that bypasses the defined {OS} interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software....
• chain 1. vi. [orig. from BASIC's CHAIN statement] To hand off execution to a child or successor without going through the OS command interpreter that invoked it.
  The state of the parent program is lost and there is no returning to it....
• OS /O-S/ 1. [Operating System] n. An abbreviation heavily used in email, occasionally in speech.
  2. n. obs. On ITS, an output spy. See "OS and JEDGAR" in Appendix A....
• OS: /O-S/ 1. [{Operating System}] n. An abbreviation heavily used in email, occasionally in speech.
  2. n.,obs. On ITS, an output spy. See "{OS and JEDGAR}" (in {Appendix A})....
• chain: 1. [orig. from BASIC's `CHAIN' statement] vi.
  To hand off execution to a child or successor without going through the {OS} command interpreter that invoked it....
• Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act i, Sc. 2...