PC-ism




/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-waiting on a hardware register, direct diddling of screen memory or using hard timing loops.

Compare ill-behaved, vaxism, Unixism.

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PCI
PCI bus
PCI Configuration Utility
PCI Mezzanine Card
PCI slot
 ill-behaved
PC-ware
same-day service
vaxism
 PCjr
PCL
PCLIPS
PCM
PCMCIA