thunker
nounEtymology From thunk + -er.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences A software mechanism that thunks.
- And 32-bit Windows applications require the bundled MetaWare Applications Development Kit (ADK), a 32-to-16 bit Windows thunker similar to but predating the Microsoft Win32s system.1995, Personal Computer Magazine, volume 14, numbers 7-8, page 222:
- There were no 32-bit scanner drivers or TWAIN modules, none were forthcoming from Microsoft […] Then along came the TWAIN_32 standard of the universal thunker.1996, Deke McClelland, Robert Phillips, Photoshop 3 for Windows 95 Bible, page 721: