pc-ism
pc-ism
in Technology
/P-C-izm/ A piece of code or coding technique that takes advantage of the unprotected single-tasking environment in IBM PCs and the like, e.g. by
busy-wait
ing on a
hardware register
, direct diddling of
screen memory
or using hard timing loops. Compare
ill-behaved
,
vaxism
,
Unixism
.
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