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• 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: [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....
• 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'....
• 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'....
• Rustle in the Weeds, by Izzy One
• 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....
• Modem: what to do to tall weeds.
• go flatline: [from cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] vi.
  also adjectival `flatlined'. 1. To {die}, terminate, or fail, esp....