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Article #13700Re: Definition: Kludge
From: Jack Gjovaag
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1987 14:00
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1987 14:00
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In article <3433@gitpyr.gatech.EDU> kludge@gitpyr.UUCP (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>In article <1736@im4u.UUCP> suhler@im4u.UUCP (Paul A. Suhler) writes:
>>Someone asked for a definition of "kludge," but I never saw the
>>real one.
>
> Anything involving two or more of the following:
> 1. Rubber bands
> 2. Masking tape
> 3. Bailing wire
> 4. Level convertors (TTL-CMOS, TTL-RTL, ECL-HTL, etc.)
> 5. IBM equipment connected to NON-IBM equipment.
> 6. IBM equipment connected to IBM equipment. (TNX jeanette)
Left off the list but important include:
7. Any Fortran program that uses Equivalence
8. Any Fortran program
9. One shots
10. Duct tape (sometimes called Duck tape and infinitely more
kludgey than masking tape)
11. Capacitors used to delay signals
12. DTMF data encoding (poor man's modem)
13. Wire wrapped back planes
14. CRTs (the last holdout of the vacuum tube)
15. Running fix-up wires through via holes on a circuit board
Jack Gjovaag
Tek Labs
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