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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? "Kludge" Post 303027716 by hicksd8 on Saturday 22nd of December 2018 04:42:02 AM
Old 12-22-2018
"Kludge"

Hi All,

I just read a thread here where Neo uses the word "Kludge". This brought long memories flooding back to me. Does anyone know the true origins of this word in the context of the IT industry??

I remember about 40 years ago people asking how IBM was growing so fast and the response was it's caused by the Kludge. The Kludge was defined as selling a product that you didn't have and then fulfilling the order by designing the product quickly afterwards. IBM salesmen in striped suits went out to very big customers (e.g. the DoD) and agreed to supply new systems. When they got back to the office the techies would say that they couldn't do that but the salesman would say you'd better design it because I've already sold it. As far as I'm concerned, that's the kludge.

Anybody got other definitions????
 

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NAME
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dictfmt_index2word [OPTIONS] [index_file] DESCRIPTION
dictfmt_index2word creates a word index file on stdout for the index file given on stdin or the command line. A word index file indexes each subword from the multi-word headwords of the .index file, to the underlying .dict file. A word index file is usually named <base- name>.word, but this is not mandatory as long as the proper name is used in the dictd configuration file. OPTIONS
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dictd(8), dictfmt(1), dictfmt_index2suffix(1) LINUX
January 23, 2003 DICTFMT_INDEX2WORD(1)
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