abend

3 definitions found

abend - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  ABEND
  
     <jargon> /o'bend/, /*-bend'/ ABnormal END.  Abnormal
     termination (of software); crash; lossage.  Derives from
     an error message on the IBM 360; used jokingly by hackers
     but seriously mainly by code grinders.  Usually capitalised,
     but may appear as "abend".  Hackers will try to persuade you
     that ABEND is called "abend" because it is what system
     operators do to the computer late on Friday when they want to
     call it a day, and hence is from the German "Abend" =
     "Evening".
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1994-11-08)
  

abend - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  ABEND
   /a'bend/, /@.bend'/, n.
  
     [ABnormal END]
  
     1. Abnormal termination (of software); crash; lossage. Derives
     from an error message on the IBM 360; used jokingly by hackers but
     seriously mainly by code grinders. Usually capitalized, but may
     appear as `abend'. Hackers will try to persuade you that ABEND is
     called abend because it is what system operators do to the machine
     late on Friday when they want to call it a day, and hence is from the
     German Abend = `Evening'.
  
     2. [alt.callahans] Absent By Enforced Net Deprivation -- used in the
     subject lines of postings warning friends of an imminent loss of
     Internet access. (This can be because of computer downtime, loss of
     provider, moving or illness.) Variants of this also appear: ABVND =
     `Absent By Voluntary Net Deprivation' and ABSEND = `Absent By
     Self-Enforced Net Deprivation' have been sighted.
  

abend - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  ABEND
         ABnormal END (Netware)