THE DPI EDUCATION TASK FORCE
EDUCATION TASK FORCE - SPECIAL TERMINOLOGY
  • BIT TWIDDLING - (1) Arithmetic operation done in a fog bank (or using white-cane approach); (2) Put data into a register (byte or word) and mix well to obtain result.
  • BOUNCE PASS - Put a control block on another module's queue.
  • BUZZ WORD - (1) Terminology used to baffle the customer if you can't dazzle him with your brilliance; (2) Similar to technical cattle flop.
  • DCOS/AIDE CODE - (1) Transaction-oriented modularly-structured, multi-tasking, serially-reusable, more-or-less re-entrant, machine interpretable instructions; (2) B-A-N-A-N-A.
  • DIDDLE - To patch code blindly.
  • DIDDLEY-BOP - Sequentially stepping through data (i.e., diddleybop down a table looking for something).
  • DO-LA-LE - (1) What's his name; (2) Human form of a thing-a-mabob; (3) The guy in the front row whose name slips everyone's mind.
  • DUAL-PURPOSE PERIOD - A small zero (@) used for both zero and period.
  • ETF - (1) Education Task Force; (2) Endless transmission of fuzz (see Fuzz Word).
  • FINAGLE FACTOR - (1) A value which when multiplied by a value, gives the result you were looking for in the first place; (2) Similar to "Fudge Factor".
  • FUZZ WORD - A buzz word before you know its meaning.
  • HORRENDOUS - Cannot be understood and therefore cannot be followed or flowcharted.
  • HUMUNGUS - (1) BIG; (2) A large amount (as in lots of core).
  • KNIBBLE - (1) 4 bits; (2) 2 licks; (3) 1/2 byte; (4) 1/4 word.
  • LICK - (1) 2 bits (not 25¢); (2) 1/2 knibble; (3) 1/4 byte; (4) 1/8 word.
  • LOOP - Continuous thrashing from Point "A" to Point "B." and then back to Point "A" with no exit.
  • MESSEY PROCESSING - (1) Message processing module; (2) See "Loop".
  • OCTAL-TO-VERBAL CONVERTER - Sub-module explained by Bill Hill.
  • ONE FELL SWOOP - Rapidly executed move of data
  • ONE SWELL FOOP - (1) All at once; (2) Immediately, if not sooner.
  • OUT-A-DA-MIDDLE - Removal of a control block from any place in a queue.
  • PSEUDO IN-LINE CODE CONVENTION - Non flowchartable program (use to flowchart quasi re-entrant code).
  • QUASI RE-ENTRANT - Re-enter code randomly.
  • REIFY - "TELL 'M AGAIN"--Part of the military teaching method: tell 'm what you're going to teach, teach 'm, teach 'm again, tell 'm what you taught 'm.
  • SPOOLED - Resources that are "bounce passed" to another module.
  • THING-A-MA-BOB - Any piece of hardware.
  • THRASHING - (1) Humungus amount of bit twiddling; (2) Reduction of 1 bits to 0 bits (or vice versa) using maximum processing time.
  • TRIBBLE - (1) 12 bits (not $1.50); (2) 3 knibbles (tripleknibble); (3) 1 1/2 bytes; (4) 3/4 word.
  • WHITE-CANE APPROACH - To diddle until some measure of improvement is stumbled upon.
  • WIZARD - Host computer (IBM).
  • ZAP - Change a bit, word, knibble, etc.