PC-ism
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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