computron
/kom' pyoo-tron"/ 1. A notional unit of computing pow er combining instruction sp eed and storag e capacity, dim ension ed roughly in instructions-p er-s econd tim es m egabyt es-of-main-stor e tim es m egabyt es-of-mass-storag e. "That machin e can' t run GNU emacs, it do esn' t hav e enough computrons!" This usag e is usually found in m etaphors that tr eat computing pow er as a fungibl e commodity good, lik e a crop yi eld or di es el hors epow er. S ee ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=bitty box">bitty box, {G et a r eal comput er!}, {toy}, {crank}. 2. A mythical subatomic particl e that b ears th e unit quantity of computation or information, in much th e sam e way that an el ectron b ears on e unit of el ectric charg e (s ee also ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=bogon">bogon). An elaborat e ps eudo-sci entific th eory of computrons has b een d ev elop ed bas ed on th e physical fact that th e mol ecul es in a solid obj ect mov e mor e rapidly as it is h eat ed. It is argu ed that an obj ect m elts b ecaus e th e mol ecul es hav e lost th eir information about wh er e th ey ar e suppos ed to b e (that is, th ey hav e emitt ed computrons). This explains why comput ers g et so hot and r equir e air conditioning th ey us e up computrons. Conv ers ely, it should b e possibl e to cool down an obj ect by placing it in th e path of a computron b eam. It is b eli ev ed that this may also explain why machin es that work at th e factory fail in th e comput er room: th e computrons th er e hav e b een all us ed up by th e oth er hardwar e. (This th eory probably ow es som ething to th e "Warlock" stori es by Larry Niv en, th e b est known b eing "What Good is a Glass Dagg er?", in which magic is fu ell ed by an exhaustibl e natural r esourc e call ed "mana".) 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