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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>wormhole</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="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="worm.html" title="worm"/><link rel="next" href="wound-around-the-axle.html" title="wound around the axle"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">wormhole</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="worm.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="wound-around-the-axle.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="wormhole"/><dt xmlns="" id="wormhole"><b>wormhole</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/werm<72>hohl/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the <span class="firstterm">wormhole</span>
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singularities hypothesized in some versions of General Relativity theory]
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</p></dd><dd><p> 1. [n.,obs.] A location in a monitor which contains the address of a
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routine, with the specific intent of making it easy to substitute a
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different routine. This term is now obsolescent; modern operating systems
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use clusters of wormholes extensively (for modularization of I/O handling
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in particular, as in the Unix device-driver organization) but the preferred
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techspeak for these clusters is ‘device tables’, ‘jump
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tables’ or ‘capability tables’. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [Amateur Packet Radio] A network path using a commercial
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satellite link to join two or more amateur VHF networks. So called because
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traffic routed through a wormhole leaves and re-enters the amateur network
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over great distances with usually little clue in the message routing header
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as to how it got from one relay to the other. Compare
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<a href="../G/gopher-hole.html"><i class="glossterm">gopher hole</i></a> (sense 2).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="worm.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="wound-around-the-axle.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">worm<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>wound around the axle</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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