flat

   1. [common] Lacking any complex internal structure. "That {bitty box}
   has only a flat filesystem, not a hierarchical one." The verb form is
   {flatten}.

   2.  Said  of  a memory architecture (like that of the {VAX} or 680x0)
   that  is  one  big linear address space (typically with each possible
   value  of  a  processor  register  corresponding  to  a  unique  core
   address),  as  opposed  to a segmented architecture (like that of the
   80x86)  in  which  addresses are composed from a base-register/offset
   pair (segmented designs are generally considered {cretinous}).

   Note  that  sense 1 (at least with respect to filesystems) is usually
   used pejoratively, while sense 2 is a {Good Thing}.

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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {hole}]