Vaston

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vaston

Usage: n.
Etymology: The United Kingdom
Derivation: Durham, UK

vaston: n.

[Durham, UK] The unit of `load average'. A measure of how much work a computer is doing. A meter displaying this as a function of time is known as a vastometer. First used during a computing practical in December 1996.

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

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