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• like kicking dead whales down the beach adj. Describes a slow, difficult, and disgusting process.
  First popularized by a famous quote about the difficulty of getting work done under one of IBM's mainframe OSes....
• whales n. See like kicking dead whales down the beach.
• Using TSO is like kicking a dead whale down the beach. -- S. C. Johnso
• 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....
• MFTL /M-F-T-L/ [abbreviation: `My Favorite Toy Language'] 1.
  adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design that is heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about semantics (e....
• 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....