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Jump Off Into Never-never Land V. [from J. M.
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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'. Compare
hyperspace.
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jump off into never-never land: [from J. M. Barrie's "Peter Pan"] v.
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....
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, often inaccessible because it is not even mapped in.
Another core dump --- looks like the program jumped off to hyperspace somehow....
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....
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....
Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. -- Stanislaw Lec
BNCB: Branch and Never Come Back