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• Blue Glue: [IBM] n. IBM's SNA (Systems Network Architecture), an incredibly {losing} and {bletcherous} communications protocol widely favored at commercial shops that don't know any better.
  The official IBM definition is "that which binds blue boxes together....
• 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....
• NetBOLLIX: [from bollix: to bungle] n. {IBM}'s NetBIOS, an extremely {brain-damaged} network protocol that, like {Blue Glue}, is used at commercial shops that don't know any better.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• 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....
• glue n. Generic term for any interface logic or protocol that connects two component blocks.
  For example, Blue Glue is IBM's SNA protocol, and hardware designers call anything used to connect large VLSI's or circuit blocks `glue logic'....
• glue: n. Generic term for any interface logic or protocol that connects two component blocks.
  For example, {Blue Glue} is IBM's SNA protocol, and hardware designers call anything used to connect large VLSI's or circuit blocks `glue logic'....
• 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....
• Roses are red, violets are blue, Rhymes can be typeset with BoXes and glue. -- the TeXBook
• IBM: Identical Blue Men.