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prime time
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n. [from TV programming] Normal high-usage hours on a system or network.
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Back in the days of big timesharing machines prime time was when lots of
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people were competing for limited cycles, usually the day shift. Avoidance
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of prime time was traditionally given as a major reason for night mode
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hacking. The term fell into disuse during the early PC era, but has been
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revived to refer to times of day or evening at which the Internet tends to
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be heavily loaded, making Web access slow. The hackish tendency to
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late-night hacking run s has changed not a bit.
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