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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>ABEND</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="abbrev.html" title="abbrev"/><link rel="next" href="accumulator.html" title="accumulator"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">ABEND</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="abbrev.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="accumulator.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="ABEND"/><dt xmlns="" id="ABEND"><b>ABEND</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/a´bend/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/@·bend´/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [ABnormal END]</p></dd><dd><p> 1. Abnormal termination (of software); <a href="../C/crash.html"><i class="glossterm">crash</i></a>;
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<a href="../L/lossage.html"><i class="glossterm">lossage</i></a>. Derives from an error message on the IBM
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360; used jokingly by hackers but seriously mainly by <a href="../C/code-grinder.html"><i class="glossterm">code
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grinder</i></a>s. Usually capitalized, but may appear as
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‘abend’. Hackers will try to persuade you that ABEND is called
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<span class="firstterm">abend</span> because it is what system
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operators do to the machine late on Friday when they want to call it a day,
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and hence is from the German <span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">Abend</i></span> =
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‘Evening’.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. [<tt class="systemitem">alt.callahans</tt>] Absent
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By Enforced Net Deprivation — used in the subject lines of postings
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warning friends of an imminent loss of Internet access. (This can be
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because of computer downtime, loss of provider, moving or illness.)
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Variants of this also appear: ABVND = ‘Absent By Voluntary Net
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Deprivation’ and ABSEND = ‘Absent By Self-Enforced Net
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Deprivation’ have been sighted. </p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="abbrev.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="accumulator.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">abbrev </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> accumulator</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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