red wire
2 definitions found
red wire - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :
red wire
<jargon, hardware> (IBM) Patch wires installed by programmers
who have no business mucking with the hardware. It is said
that the only thing more dangerous than a hardware guy with a
code patch is a softy with a soldering iron.
Compare blue wire, yellow wire, purple wire.
[Jargon File]
(1994-12-23)
red wire - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :
red wire
n.
[IBM] Patch wires installed by programmers who have no business
mucking with the hardware. It is said that the only thing more
dangerous than a hardware guy with a code patch is a softy with a
soldering iron.... Compare blue wire, yellow wire, purple wire.
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