: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." 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 pen}s. 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'.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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 pen}s. 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'.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- 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.... - 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.... - 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.... - 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
- evil: adj. As used by hackers, implies that some system, program,
person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not
worth the bother of dealing with.
Unlike the adjectives in the {cretinous}/{losing}/{brain-damaged} series, `evil' does not imply incompetence or bad design, but rather a set of goals or design criteria fatally incompatible with the speaker's....
