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• etrock: /net'rok/ [IBM] n. A {flame}; used esp. on VNET, IBM's internal corporate network.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• otwork /not'werk/ n. A network, when it is acting flaky or is down.
  Compare nyetwork. S have originally referred to a particular period of flakiness on IBM's VNET corporate network ca....
• otwork: /not'werk/ n. A network, when it is acting {flaky} or is {down}.
  Compare {nyetwork}. Said at IBM to have originally referred to a particular period of flakiness on IBM's VNET corporate network ca....
• gripenet n. [IBM] A wry (and thoroughly unofficial) name for IBM's internal VNET system
  deriving from its common use by IBMers to voice pointed criticism of IBM management that would be taboo in more formal channels....
• gripenet: [IBM] n. A wry (and thoroughly unofficial) name for IBM's internal VNET system
  deriving from its common use by IBMers to voice pointed criticism of IBM management that would be taboo in more formal channels....
• IBM: Internal Beaurocratic Mess.
• box n. 1. A computer; esp. in the construction `foo box' where foo is some functional qualifier, like `graphics', or the name of an OS (thus, `Unix box', `MS-DOS box', etc.
  ) "We preprocess the data on Unix boxes before handing it up to the mainframe....
• box: n. 1. A computer; esp. in the construction `foo box' where foo is some functional qualifier, like `graphics', or the name of an OS (thus, `UNIX box', `MS-DOS box', etc.
  ) "We preprocess the data on UNIX boxes before handing it up to the mainframe....
• NetBOLLIX n. [from bollix: to bungle, or Britsish `bollocks'] IBM's NetBIOS
  an extremely brain-damaged network protocol that, like Blue Glue, is used at commercial shops that don't know any better....