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.