On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 09:34:45AM -0800, Gus Wirth wrote: > At 19:13 12/02/2005 -0800, Todd Walton wrote: > >On 12/2/05, Wade Curry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> job that abends > > > >Oh, wow. Cool word. Cooler still because it's near obvious (in > >context) what it means. I looked it up anyway. M-W.com doesn't have > >anything, of course, but Wikipedia and various other sites trawled by > >Google's define: did. > > For those who still don't know: abend means abnormal end. Novell has been > using that term for at least 15 years since Netware 2.x and maybe even > earlier. > > Gus >
I was told 20 years ago the abend was an IBM/mainframe term originally. So it goes waaay back. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
