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not running rather than because it is waiting for something. However, the recovery from both situations is often the same. |
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hungry puppy n. Syn. slopsucker. |
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hungus /huhng'g s/ adj. [perhaps related to slang 'humongous'] Large, unwieldy, usually unmanageable. "TCP is a hungus piece of code." "This is a hungus set of modifications." |
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hyperspace /h per-spays/ n. A memory location that is far away from where the program counter should be pointing, especially a place that is inaccessible because it is not even mapped in by the virtual-memory system. "Another core dump looks like the program jumped off to hyperspace somehow." (Compare jump off into never-never land.) This usage is from the SF notion of a spaceship jumping into hyperspace, that is, taking a shortcut through higher-dimensional space in other words, bypassing this universe. The variant east hyperspace is recorded among CMU and Bliss hackers. |
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hysterical reasons n. (also hysterical raisins) A variant on the stock phrase "for historical reasons", indicating specifically that something must be done in some stupid way for backwards compatibility, and moreover that the feature it must be compatible with was the result of a bad design in the first place. "All IBM PC video adapters have to support MDA text mode for hysterical reasons." Compare bug-for-bug compatible. |
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