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• Windows 95 really does have pre-emptive multitasking: It can boot and crash at the same time.
• cycle crunch: n. A situation wherein the number of people trying to use a computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the system has probably begun to {thrash}.
  This scenario is an inevitable result of Parkinson's Law applied to timesharing....
• The Amiga is the only personal computer where you can run a multitasking operating system and get realtime performance, out of the box.
  -- Peter da Silva...
• o The Caissons Go Rolling Along) Scratch the disks, dump the core, Shut it down, pull the plug Roll the tapes across the floor, Give the core an extra tug And the system is going to crash.
  And the system is going to crash. Teletypes smashed to bits....
• Scratch the disks, dump the core, Shut it down, pull the plug Roll the tapes across the floor, Give the core an extra tug And the system is going to crash.
  And the system is going to crash. Teletypes smashed to bits....
• microfortnight n. 1/1000000 of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measureme
  1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel...
• microfortnight: n. 1/1000000 of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measureme
  1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel...