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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Blue Glue</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="blue-box.html" title="blue box"/><link rel="next" href="blue-goo.html" title="blue goo"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Blue Glue</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="blue-box.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="blue-goo.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Blue-Glue"/><dt xmlns="" id="Blue-Glue"><b>Blue Glue</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [IBM; obs.] IBM's SNA (Systems Network Architecture), an incredibly
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<a href="../L/losing.html"><i class="glossterm">losing</i></a> and <a href="bletcherous.html"><i class="glossterm">bletcherous</i></a>
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communications protocol once widely favored at commercial shops that didn't
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know any better (like other proprietary networking protocols, it became
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obsolete and effectively disappeared after the Internet explosion c.1994).
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The official IBM definition is “<span class="quote">that which binds blue boxes
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together.</span>” See <a href="../F/fear-and-loathing.html"><i class="glossterm">fear and loathing</i></a>. It may not
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be irrelevant that Blue Glue is the trade name of a 3M product that is
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commonly used to hold down the carpet squares to the removable panel floors
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common in <a href="../D/dinosaur-pen.html"><i class="glossterm">dinosaur pen</i></a>s. A correspondent at
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U. Minn. reports that the CS department there has about 80 bottles of the
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stuff hanging about, so they often refer to any messy work to be done as
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<span class="firstterm">using the blue glue</span>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="blue-box.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="blue-goo.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">blue box<6F></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>blue goo</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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