Blue Glue n.
[IBM] 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." See fear and loathing. It may
not be irrelevant that Blue Glue is the trade name of a 3M
product that is commonly used to hold down the carpet squares to
the removable panel floors common in dinosaur pens. A
correspondent at U. Minn. reports that the CS department there has
about 80 bottles of the stuff hanging about, so they often refer to
any messy work to be done as `using the blue glue'.
[IBM] 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." See fear and loathing. It may
not be irrelevant that Blue Glue is the trade name of a 3M
product that is commonly used to hold down the carpet squares to
the removable panel floors common in dinosaur pens. A
correspondent at U. Minn. reports that the CS department there has
about 80 bottles of the stuff hanging about, so they often refer to
any messy work to be done as `using the blue glue'.
Related:
- 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.
