Editing Count Zero (section)

==Title allusions==
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The title of the book is a [[pseudonym]] of the main character [[Bobby Newmark]],{{cn|date = August 2024}} and is also claimed by Gibson to be a word-play on the [[computer programming]] term ''count zero interrupt''.{{cn|date = August 2024}} As presented on the front leaf of the book,{{what|date = August 2024}}{{cn|date = August 2024}} there is a programming direction that states, "[o]n receiving an interrupt, decrement the counter to zero",{{cite quote|date=January 2023}} that is, the title refers to a "count zero interrupt",{{says who|date = August 2024}} an [[interrupt]] of a [[process (computing)|computing process]] that decrements a [[Counter (digital)|programming counter]] to zero.{{cn|date=January 2023}} A 1982 edition of [[Charles Sippl]]'s computer dictionary<ref>Charles Sipple is father of [[Roger Sippl]].{{so what|date = August 2024}}{{cn|date = August 2024}}</ref><ref>This is purported to be the first such dictionary.{{so what|date = August 2024}}{{cn|date = August 2024}}</ref> defines a "count zero interrupt" as "[a]n interrupt level that is triggered when an associated (clock) counter pulse interrupt{{jargon inline|date = August 2024}} has produced a zero result in a clock counter".<ref>{{Cite book | author = Sippl, Charles Roger | date = 1982 | title = SAMS Computer Dictionary | edition = 3rd | page =  | location =  | publisher =  | isbn =  | url=http://archive.org/details/SAMS_Computer_Dictionary_Third_Edition_1982_Charles_Roger_Sippl | access-date =  | quote = }}{{full|date = August 2024}}</ref>{{page needed|date = August 2024}} The term, however, is not one generally understood.{{says who|date=August 2024}}{{cn|date=January 2023}}