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• 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....
• 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....
• 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....
• 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'....
• etrock: /net'rok/ [IBM] n. A {flame}; used esp. on VNET, IBM's internal corporate network.
  -- 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....
• fear and loathing: [from Hunter S. Thompson] n. A state inspired by the prospect of dealing with certain real-world systems and standards that are totally {brain-damaged} but ubiquitous --- Intel 8086
  or {COBOL}, or {{EBCDIC}}, or any {IBM} machine except the Rios (a....
• frednet: /fred'net/ n. Used to refer to some {random} and uncommon protocol encountered on a network.
  We're implementing bridging in our router to solve the frednet problem....