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• codes n. [scientific computing] Programs. This usage is common in people who hack supercomputers and heavy-duty number-crunching
  are to unknown elsewhere (if you say "codes" to hackers outside scientific computing, their first association is likely to be "and cyphers")....
• mainframe: n. Term originally referring to the cabinet containing the central processor unit or `main frame' of a room-filling {Stone Age} batch machine.
  After the emergence of smaller `minicomputer' designs in the early 1970s, the traditional {big iron} machines were described as `mainframe computers' and eventually just as mainframes....
• dusty deck: n. Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with
  or to maintain ({DP} types call this `legacy code', a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent)....
• jock: n. 1. A programmer who is characterized by large and somewhat brute-force programs.
  See {brute force}. 2. When modified by another noun, describes a specialist in some particular computing area....
• SIG: /sig/ n. (also common as a prefix in combining forms) A Special Interest Group, in one of several technical areas, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery
  well-known ones include SIGPLAN (the Special Interest Group on Programming Languages), SIGARCH (the Special Interest Group for Computer Architecture) and SIGGRAPH (the Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics)....
• funny money: n. 1. Notional `dollar' units of computing time and/or storage handed to students at the beginning of a computer course
  also called `play money' or `purple money' (in implicit opposition to real or `green' money)....
• big iron: n. Large, expensive, ultra-fast computers.
  Used generally of {number-crunching} supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes....
• hack value: n. Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack.
  For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value....
• ided: /str:'d*d/ [scientific computing] adj. Said of a sequence of memory reads and writes to addresse
  each of which is separated from the last by a constant interval called the `stride length'....