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• ed wire n. [IBM] Patch wires installed by programmers who have no business mucking with the hardware.
  It is said that the only thing more dangerous than a hardware guy with a code patch is a softy with a soldering iron....
• blue wire: [IBM] n. Patch wires added to circuit boards at the factory to correct design or fabrication problems.
  These may be necessary if there hasn't been time to design and qualify another board version....
• purple wire: [IBM] n. Wire installed by Field Engineers to work around problems discovered during testing or debugging.
  These are called `purple wires' even when (as is frequently the case) their actual physical color is yellow....
• yellow wire: [IBM] n. Repair wires used when connectors (especially ribbon connectors) got broken due to some schlemiel pinching them
  or to reconnect cut traces after the FE mistakenly cut one....
• purple wire n. [IBM] Wire installed by Field Engineers to work around problems discovered during testing or debugging.
  These are called `purple wires' even when (as is frequently the case) their actual physical color is yellow....
• blue wire n. [IBM] Patch wires (esp. 30 AWG gauge) added to circuit boards at the factory to correct design or fabrication problems.
  Blue wire is not necessarily blue, the term describes function rather than color....
• yellow wire n. [IBM] Repair wires used when connectors (especially ribbon connectors) got broken due to some schlemiel pinching them
  or to reconnect cut traces after the FE mistakenly cut one. Compare blue wire, purple wire...
• ofty: [IBM] n. Hardware hackers' term for a software expert who is largely ignorant of the mysteries of hardware.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• patch 1. n. A temporary addition to a piece of code, usually as a quick-and-dirty remedy to an existing bug or misfeature.
  A patch may or may not work, and may or may not eventually be incorporated permanently into the program....