meaning of scratchpad ii
1. Scratchpad II See Scratchpad I, AXIOM. ["Scratchpad II Programming Language Manual", R. D. Jenks et al, IBM, 1985]. [Scratchpad II Newsletter: Computer Algebra Group, TJWRC, Box 218, Yorktown Hts, NY 10598]. scream and die Synonym cough and die, but connotes that an error message was printed or displayed before the program crashed. [Jargon File] Screamer An extension of Common Lisp providing nondeterministic backtracking and constraint programming. ftp://ftp. ai. mit. edu/pub/screamer. tar. Z. [Isnt all backtracking nondeterministic by definition?] screaming tty [Unix] A terminal line which spews an infinite number of random characters at the operating system. This can happen if the terminal is either disconnected or connected to a powered-off terminal but still enabled for login; misconfiguration, misimplementation, or simple bad luck can start such a terminal screaming. A screaming tty or two can seriously degrade the performance of a vanilla Unix system; the arriving "characters" are treated as userid/password pairs and tested as such. The Unix password encryption algorithm is designed to be computationally intensive in order to foil brute-force crack attacks, so although none of the logins succeeds; the overhead of rejecting them all can be substantial. [Jargon File] screen blanker screen saver Screen Peace
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