meaning of bit twiddling

1. bit twiddling 1. pejorative An exercise in tuning see tune in which incredible amounts of time and effort go to produce little noticeable improvement, often with the result that the code becomes incomprehensible. 2. Aimless small modification to a program, especially for some pointless goal. 3. bit bashing, especially used for the act of frobbing the device control register of a peripheral in an attempt to get it back to a known state. [Jargon File] bitty box Or "calculator" /bitee boks/ A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it. The term is especially used of small, obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal computers such as the Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80 or IBM PC, but the term is a general pejorative opposite of "real computer" see Get a real computer!. See also mess-dos, toaster, toy.

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