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Nobody ever uses this expression. Delete this shit.

I use this "shit"... 199.231.28.58 (talk) 13:22, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

How about in US Patent 7,093,284? 24.131.135.119 (talk) 05:13, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You mean no-one who doesn't ever use a mainframe. 194.159.178.180 (talk) 08:19, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

According to the blurb, the Computing WikiProject attempts "to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to computers and computing". The term "abend", while possibly originating on OS/360, is used on Novell Netware servers in place of Microsoft's "blue screen", and used to mean roughly the same: the computer has crashed. Nowadays, it means that a thread of the OS has crashed and it is not fatal. This is well known to tens of thousands of Netware-aware professionals, a system that after all had up to 90% market share in network operating systems in the early 90s and is still sold and maintained. To state that "Nobody ever uses this expression. Delete this shit" is either ignorant or malevolent. Netware system administrators even use it as a verb: "the NLM (Netware Loadable Module) has abended".

81.179.10.85 (talk) 14:51, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]