On 12/3/05, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
It apparently comes from an IBM 360 error message. Which makes it
about 40 years old. Yes, it's been that long.
Or maybv it's what the German programmers say when they want to make a
night of it.
carl
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