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dynner, gawble (on a 32-bit machine), word (on a 32-bit machine), longword (on a 16-bit machine). |
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word (on a 36-bit machine) |
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gawble (under circumstances that remain obscure) |
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The fundamental motivation for most of these jargon terms (aside from the normal hackerly enjoyment of punning wordplay) is the extreme ambiguity of the term word and its derivatives. |
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nyetwork /nyet'werk/ n. [from Russian 'nyet' = no] A network, when it is acting flaky or is down. Compare notwork. |
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