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From: kludge@gitpyr.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Definition:  Kludge
Message-ID: <3451@gitpyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: Fri, 17-Apr-87 21:59:27 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 17 21:59:27 1987
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Reply-To: kludge@gitpyr.UUCP (Scott Dorsey)
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In article <1199@tekchips.TEK.COM> jackg@tekchips.UUCP (Jack Gjovaag) writes:
>In article <3433@gitpyr.gatech.EDU> kludge@gitpyr.UUCP (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>>In article <1736@im4u.UUCP> suhler@im4u.UUCP (Paul A. Suhler) writes:
>>>Someone asked for a definition of "kludge," but I never saw the
>>>real one.
>     15.  Running fix-up wires through via holes on a circuit board
 
        You think that's bad?  I have some military avionics computers which
have fix-up wires running from one board in the backplane to another.  You
can't remove just one board; they are permanently connected together by a
strand of kynar hook-up wire.  This is what keeps your Air Force flying!

-- 
Scott Dorsey   Kaptain_Kludge
ICS Programming Lab (Where old terminals go to die),  Rich 110,
    Georgia Institute of Technology, Box 36681, Atlanta, Georgia 30332
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