crayon

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 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.

[Jargon File]

(1994-10-13)