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necessary; see [1109]ill-behaved). There, the term usually refers to

bypassing the BIOS or OS interface and writing the application to

directly access device registers and machine addresses. "To get 19.2

kilobaud on the serial port, you need to get down to the bare metal."

People who can do this sort of thing well are held in high regard.

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barf /barf/ n.,v.

[common; from mainstream slang meaning `vomit'] 1. interj. Term of

disgust. This is the closest hackish equivalent of the Valspeak "gag

me with a spoon". (Like, euwww!) See [1113]bletch. 2. vi. To say

"Barf!" or emit some similar expression of disgust. "I showed him my

latest hack and he barfed" means only that he complained about it, not

that he literally vomited. 3. vi. To fail to work because of

unacceptable input, perhaps with a suitable error message, perhaps

not. Examples: "The division operation barfs if you try to divide by

0." (That is, the division operation checks for an attempt to divide

by zero, and if one is encountered it causes the operation to fail in

some unspecified, but generally obvious, manner.) "The text editor

barfs if you try to read in a new file before writing out the old

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