blue glue

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

  Systems Network Architecture
  Blue Glue
  SNA
  
     <networking> (SNA) IBM's proprietary high level networking
     protocol standard, used by IBM and IBM compatible
     mainframes.
  
     Also referred to as "Blue Glue", SNA is a bletcherous protocol
     once widely favoured at commercial shops.  The official IBM
     definition is "that which binds blue boxes together."  It may
     be relevant that Blue Glue is also a 3M product commonly
     used to hold down carpets in dinosaur pens.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1994-11-23)
  

blue glue - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  Blue Glue
   n.
  
     [IBM; obs.] IBM's SNA (Systems Network Architecture), an incredibly
     losing and bletcherous communications protocol once widely
  favored
     at commercial shops that didn't know any better (like other
     proprietary networking protocols, it became obsolete and effectively
     disappeared after the Internet explosion c.1994). The official IBM
     definition is "that which binds blue boxes together." See fear and loathing
     . It may not be irrelevant that Blue Glue is the trade name
     of a 3M product that is commonly used to hold down the carpet squares
     to the removable panel floors common in dinosaur pens. A
     correspondent at U. Minn. reports that the CS department there has
     about 80 bottles of the stuff hanging about, so they often refer to
     any messy work to be done as using the blue glue.