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• cycle: 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper describes himself as a "cycle junkie").
  One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....
• canonical adj. [very common; historically, `according to religious law'] The usual or standard state or manner of something.
  This word has a somewhat more technical meaning in mathematics....
• byte:: /bi:t/ [techspeak] n. A unit of memory or data equal to the amount used to represent one characte
  on modern architectures this is usually 8 bits, but may be 9 on 36-bit machines....
• WIZARD n. 1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware work
  omeone who can find and fix his bugs in an emergency....
• bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer equipment.
  The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage....
• cycle 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper described himself as a "cycle junkie").
  One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....
• oftware rot n. Term used to describe the tendency of software that has not been used in a while to lose
  uch failure may be semi-humorously ascribed to bit rot....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....