crayon
crayon n. 1. Someone who works on Cray supercomputers.
More specifically, it implies a programmer, probably of the CDC
ilk, probably male, and almost certainly wearing a tie
(irrespective of gender). Systems types who have a UNIX background
tend not to be described as crayons. 2. A {computron} (sense 2)
that participates only in {number-crunching}. 3. A unit of
computational power equal to that of a single Cray-1. There is a
standard joke about this usage that derives from an old Crayola
crayon promotional gimmick: When you buy 64 crayons you get a free
sharpener.
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