English Dictionary: fuzzball | by the DICT Development Group |
2 results for fuzzball | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
fuzzball n. [TCP/IP hackers] A DEC LSI-11 running a particular suite of homebrewed software written by Dave Mills and assorted co-conspirators, used in the early 1980s for Internet protocol testbedding and experimentation. These were used as NSFnet backbone sites in its early 56kb-line days; a few were still active on the Internet as late as mid-1993, doing odd jobs such as network time service. = G = | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
fuzzball A {DEC} {LSI-11} running a particular suite of homebrewed software written by Dave Mills and assorted co-conspirators, used in the early 1980s for {Internet} {protocol} testbedding and experimentation. These were used as {NSFnet} {backbone} sites in its early 56KB-line days. A few were still active on the {Internet} in early 1991, doing odd jobs such as network time service. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-05) |