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• crank vt. [from automotive slang] Verb used to describe the performance of a machine, especially sustained performance.
  This box cranks (or, cranks at) about 6 megaflops, with a burst mode of twice that on vectorized operations....
• machoflops: /mach'oh-flops/ [pun on `megaflops', a coinage for `millions of FLoating-point Operations Per Second'] n.
  Refers to artificially inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers....
• moke and mirrors: n. Marketing deceptions. The term is mainstream in this general sense.
  Among hackers it's strongly associated with bogus demos and crocked {benchmark}s (see also {MIPS}, {machoflops})....
• hose: 1. vt. To make non-functional or greatly degraded in performance.
  That big ray-tracing program really hoses the system....
• megapenny: /meg'*-pen`ee/ n. $10,000 (1 cent * 10^6).
  Used semi-humorously as a unit in comparing computer cost and performance figures....
• are mode: [UNIX] adj. CBREAK mode (character-by-character with interrupts enabled).
  Distinguished from {raw mode} and {cooked mode}...
• compress: [UNIX] vt. When used without a qualifier, generally refers to {crunch}ing of a file using a particular C implementation of compression by James A.
  Woods et al. and widely circulated via {USENET}...
• ice box: [from ham radio slang] n. Any Asian-made commodity computer, esp.
  an 80x86-based machine built to IBM PC-compatible ISA or EISA-bus standards....
• aster blaster: n. [Cambridge] Specialized hardware for {bitblt} operations (a {blitter}).
  Allegedly inspired by `Rasta Blasta', British slang for the sort of portable stereo Americans call a `boom box' or `ghetto blaster'....