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From: jackg@tekchips.TEK.COM (Jack Gjovaag)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Definition:  Kludge
Message-ID: <1199@tekchips.TEK.COM>
Date: Fri, 17-Apr-87 09:00:47 EST
Article-I.D.: tekchips.1199
Posted: Fri Apr 17 09:00:47 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Apr-87 13:14:41 EST
References: <1736@im4u.UUCP> <16745@sun.uucp> <3433@gitpyr.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: jackg@tekchips.UUCP (Jack Gjovaag)
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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.
>
>   Anything involving two or more of the following:
>     1.  Rubber bands
>     2.  Masking tape
>     3.  Bailing wire
>     4.  Level convertors (TTL-CMOS, TTL-RTL, ECL-HTL, etc.)
>     5.  IBM equipment connected to NON-IBM equipment.
>     6.  IBM equipment connected to IBM equipment.  (TNX jeanette)

Left off the list but important include:
      7.  Any Fortran program that uses Equivalence
      8.  Any Fortran program
      9.  One shots
     10.  Duct tape (sometimes called Duck tape and infinitely more
          kludgey than masking tape)
     11.  Capacitors used to delay signals
     12.  DTMF data encoding (poor man's modem)
     13.  Wire wrapped back planes
     14.  CRTs (the last holdout of the vacuum tube)
     15.  Running fix-up wires through via holes on a circuit board

  Jack Gjovaag
  Tek Labs