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First talk[edit]

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]

I also use this term and am glad to discover it has a stub article here. Simon Greatrix (talk) 12:30, 2 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Doesn't need its own article[edit]

MERGE AS SUGGESTED

No opposition to the merge after more than 8 months. Joyous! Noise! 18:06, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

There's nothing here that warrants more than a (sub)section in the Crash (computing) article. WP Ludicer (talk) 19:06, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A WP:MERGE is a reasonable suggestion. ~Kvng (talk) 14:09, 17 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 02:53, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support merge. Joyous! | Talk 15:52, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think it should be merged. Please reply to stop the merge. Article contents would be copied to Crash (computing)'s section. Prinaki (talk) 17:18, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.