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effect, bit rot the notional cause.

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bit twiddling n.

[very common] 1. (pejorative) An exercise in tuning (see [1397]tune)

in which incredible amounts of time and effort go to produce little

noticeable improvement, often with the result that the code becomes

incomprehensible. 2. Aimless small modification to a program, esp. for

some pointless goal. 3. Approx. syn. for [1398]bit bashing; esp. used

for the act of frobbing the device control register of a peripheral in

an attempt to get it back to a known state.

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bit-paired keyboard n.,obs.

(alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems

to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for

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