ABEND /a'bend/, /*-bend'/ n.
[ABnormal END]
1. Abnormal termination (of software); crash; lossage.
Derives from an error message on the IBM 360; used jokingly by
hackers but seriously mainly by code grinders. Usually
capitalized, but may appear as `abend'. Hackers will try to
persuade you that ABEND is called `abend' because it is what
system operators do to the machine late on Friday when they want to
call it a day, and hence is from the German `Abend' = `Evening'.
2. [alt.callahans] Absent By Enforced Net Deprivation -
used in the subject lines of postings warning friends of an
imminent loss of Internet access. (This can be because of computer
downtime, loss of provider, moving or illness.) Variants of this
also appear: ABVND = `Absent By Voluntary Net Deprivation' and
ABSEND = `Absent By Self-Enforced Net Deprivation' have been
sighted.
[ABnormal END]
1. Abnormal termination (of software); crash; lossage.
Derives from an error message on the IBM 360; used jokingly by
hackers but seriously mainly by code grinders. Usually
capitalized, but may appear as `abend'. Hackers will try to
persuade you that ABEND is called `abend' because it is what
system operators do to the machine late on Friday when they want to
call it a day, and hence is from the German `Abend' = `Evening'.
2. [alt.callahans] Absent By Enforced Net Deprivation -
used in the subject lines of postings warning friends of an
imminent loss of Internet access. (This can be because of computer
downtime, loss of provider, moving or illness.) Variants of this
also appear: ABVND = `Absent By Voluntary Net Deprivation' and
ABSEND = `Absent By Self-Enforced Net Deprivation' have been
sighted.
Related:
- ABEND: [ABnormal END] /o'bend/, /*-bend'/ n. Abnormal
termination (of software)
{crash}; {lossage}. Derives from an error message on the IBM 360... - A motion to abend is always in order.
- pam vt.,vi.,n.
[from "Monty Python's Flying
Circus"] 1.
To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data.... - boot v.,n.
[techspeak; from `by one's bootstraps'] To
load and initialize the operating system on a machine.
This usage is no longer jargon (having passed into techspeak) but has given rise to some derivatives that are still jargon.... - WIZARD n. 1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or
hardware work
omeone who can find and fix his bugs in an emergency.... - front end: n. 1. An intermediary computer that does set-up and
filtering for another (usually more powerful but less friendly)
machine (a `back end').
2. What you're talking to when you have a conversation with someone who is making replies without paying attention.... - EBCDIC /eb's*-dik/, /eb'see`dik/, or /eb'k*-dik/ n.
[abbreviation, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code] An alleged character set used on IBM dinosaurs.... - eakernet: /snee'ker-net/ n. Term used (generally with ironic
intent) for transfer of electronic information by physically
carrying tape
disks, or some other media from one machine to another.... - Linux /lee'nuhks/ or /li'nuks/, not /li:'nuhks/
n.
The free Unix workalike created by Linus Torvalds and friends starting about 1991....
