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Notwork




/not'werk/ A network, when it is acting flaky or is down. Compare nyetwork.

Said at IBM to have originally referred to a particular period of flakiness on IBM's VNET corporate network ca. 1988; but there are independent reports of the term from elsewhere.





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not ready for prime time
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Novell Data Systems
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