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• hrash vi. To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing anything useful.
  Paging or swapping systems that are overloaded waste most of their time moving data into and out of core (rather than performing useful computation) and are therefore said to thrash....
• overrun: n. 1. [techspeak] Term for a frequent consequence of data arriving faster than it can be consumed, esp.
  in serial line communications. For example, at 9600 baud there is almost exactly one character per millisecond, so if a {silo} can hold only two characters and the machine takes longer than 2 msec to get to service the interrupt, at least one character will be lost....
• multitask: n. Often used of humans in the same meaning it has for computers, to describe a person doing several things at once (but see {thrash}).
  The term `multiplex', from communications technology (meaning to handle more than one channel at the same time), is used similarly....
• phase: 1. n. The offset of one's waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle
  a useful concept among people who often work at night and/or according to no fixed schedule....
• overrun n. 1. [techspeak] Term for a frequent consequence of data arriving faster than it can be consumed, esp.
  in serial line communications. For example, at 9600 baud there is almost exactly one character per millisecond, so if a silo can hold only two characters and the machine takes longer than 2 msec to get to service the interrupt, at least one character will be lost....
• buzz: vi. 1. Of a program, to run with no indication of progress and perhaps without guarantee of ever finishing
  esp. said of programs thought to be executing tight loops of code....
• creeping featurism: /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n. 1. Describes a systematic tendency to load more {chrome} and {feature}s onto systems at the expense of whatever elegance they may have possessed when originally designed.
  See also {feeping creaturism}. "You know, the main problem with {BSD} UNIX has always been creeping featurism....
• pathological: adj. 1. [scientific computation] Used of a data set that is grossly atypical of normal expected input, esp.
  one that exposes a weakness or bug in whatever algorithm one is using....
• phase 1. n. The offset of one's waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle
  a useful concept among people who often work at night and/or according to no fixed schedule....