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purple wirepurple wire n. [IBM] Wire installed by Field Engineers to work around problems discovered during testing or debugging. These are called ‘purple wires’ even when (as is frequently the case) their actual physical color is yellow.... Compare blue wire, yellow wire, and red wire. |
The Jargon FileCartoonsThe crunchly saga
The infamous Crunchly cartoons by The Great Quux are woven into the lexicon, each next to an appropriate entry. To read them in the sequence in which they were written, chase pointers from here using the ‘next cartoon’ information in the captions. |
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