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• jump off into never-never land v. [from J. M. Barrie's "Peter Pan"] Same as branch to Fishkill
  but more common in technical cultures associated with non-IBM computers that use the term `jump' rather than `branch'....
• branch to Fishkill: [IBM: from the location of one of the corporation's facilities] n.
  Any unexpected jump in a program that produces catastrophic or just plain weird results....
• weeds: n. 1. Refers to development projects or algorithms that have no possible relevance or practical application.
  Comes from `off in the weeds'. Used in phrases like "lexical analysis for microcode is serious weeds....
• hyperspace: /hi:'per-spays/ n. A memory location that is *far* away from where the program counter should be pointing, often inaccessible because it is not even mapped in.
  Another core dump --- looks like the program jumped off to hyperspace somehow....
• branch to Fishkill n. [IBM: from the location of one of the corporation's facilities] Any unexpected jump in a program that produces catastrophic or just plain weird results.
  See jump off into ne...
• hyperspace /hi:'per-spays/ n. A memory location that is far away from where the program counter should be pointing
  especially a place that is inaccessible because it is not even mapped in by the virtual-memory system....
• MS-DOS:: /M-S-dos/ [MicroSoft Disk Operating System] n.
  A {clone} of {{CP/M}} for the 8088 crufted together in 6 weeks by hacker Tim Paterson, who is said to have regretted it ever since....
• multitask: n. Often used of humans in the same meaning it has for computers, to describe a person doing several things at once (but see {thrash}).
  The term `multiplex', from communications technology (meaning to handle more than one channel at the same time), is used similarly....
• hang: v. 1. To wait for an event that will never occur.
  The system is hanging because it can't read from the crashed drive"....