Notwork

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notwork
/not´werk/
Usage: n.

See Also: nyetwork


notwork: /not´werk/ n.

A network, when it is acting flaky or is down. Compare nyetwork. Said at IBM to have originally referred to a particular period of flakiness on IBM's VNET corporate network ca. 1988; but there are independent reports of the term from elsewhere.

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Source: notwork, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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