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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>prime time</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="priesthood.html" title="priesthood"/><link rel="next" href="print.html" title="print"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">prime time</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="priesthood.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="print.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="prime-time"/><dt xmlns="" id="prime-time"><b>prime time</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from TV programming] Normal high-usage hours on a system or
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network. Back in the days of big timesharing machines ‘prime
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time’ was when lots of people were competing for limited cycles,
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usually the day shift. Avoidance of prime time was traditionally given as
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a major reason for <a href="../N/night-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">night mode</i></a> hacking. The term
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fell into disuse during the early PC era, but has been revived to refer to
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times of day or evening at which the Internet tends to be heavily loaded,
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making Web access slow. The hackish tendency to late-night
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<a href="../H/hacking-run.html"><i class="glossterm">hacking run</i></a>s has changed not a bit.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="priesthood.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="print.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">priesthood<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>print</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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