meaning of cpu time
1. CPU time processor time CPU Wars /C-P-U worz/ A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM Impossible to Program Machines to conquer and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC Human Engineered Computers. This rather transparent allegory featured many references to ADVENT and the immortal line "Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!" uttered, of course, by an IPM stormtrooper. It is alleged that the author subsequently received a letter of appreciation on IBM company stationery from the head of IBMs Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratories then, as now, one of the few islands of true hackerdom in the IBM archipelago. The lower loop of the B in the IBM logo, it is said, had been carefully whited out. See eat flaming death. [Jargon File] CR Carriage Return cr
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