distributed through the earth's crust, with the statistically
insignificant exception of uranium lodes) it became obvious that
one has to design memories to withstand these hits.

:cough and die: /v./ Syn. {barf}. Connotes that the program
is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or
oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was
looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare
{die}, {die horribly}, {scream and die}.

:cowboy: /n./ [Sun, from William Gibson's {cyberpunk} SF]
Synonym for {hacker}. It is reported that at Sun this word is
often said with reverence.

:CP/M:: /C-P-M/ /n./ [Control Program/Monitor; later
{retcon}ned to Control Program for Microcomputers] An early
microcomputer {OS} written by hacker Gary Kildall for 8080- and
Z80-based machines, very popular in the late 1970s but virtually
wiped out by MS-DOS after the release of the IBM PC in 1981.
Legend has it that Kildall's company blew its chance to write the
OS for the IBM PC because Kildall decided to spend a day IBM's reps
wanted to meet with him enjoying the perfect flying weather in his
private plane. Many of CP/M's features and conventions strongly
resemble those of early {DEC} operating systems such as
{{TOPS-10}}, OS/8, RSTS, and RSX-11. See {{MS-DOS}},
{operating system}.

:CPU Wars: /C-P-U worz/ /n./ 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