NOTWORK


Meaning of NOTWORK in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ /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.

Jargon File English vocabulary.      Английский словарь жаргона.