See {compress}. 3. /n./ The character `#'. Used at XEROX
and CMU, among other places. See {{ASCII}}. 4. /vt./ To squeeze
program source into a minimum-size representation that will still
compile or execute. The term came into being specifically for a
famous program on the BBC micro that crunched BASIC source in order
to make it run more quickly (it was a wholly interpretive BASIC, so
the number of characters mattered). {Obfuscated C Contest}
entries are often crunched; see the first example under that entry.

:cruncha cruncha cruncha: /kruhn'ch* kruhn'ch* kruhn'ch*/ /interj./
An encouragement sometimes muttered to a machine
bogged down in a serious {grovel}. Also describes a notional
sound made by groveling hardware. See {wugga wugga}, {grind}
(sense 3).

:cryppie: /krip'ee/ /n./ A cryptographer. One who hacks or
implements cryptographic software or hardware.

:CTSS: /C-T-S-S/ /n./ Compatible Time-Sharing System. An
early (1963) experiment in the design of interactive time-sharing
operating systems, ancestral to {{Multics}}, {{Unix}}, and
{{ITS}}. The name {{ITS}} (Incompatible Time-sharing System)
was a hack on CTSS, meant both as a joke and to express some basic
differences in philosophy about the way I/O services should be
presented to user programs.

:CTY: /sit'ee/ or /C-T-Y/ /n./ [MIT] The terminal
physically associated with a computer's system {{console}}. The
term is a contraction of `Console {tty}', that is, `Console
TeleTYpe'. This {{ITS}}- and {{TOPS-10}}-associated term has