May 15, 2003

dead

adj.

1. Non-functional; down; crashed. Especially used of hardware.

2. At XEROX PARC, software that is working but not undergoing continued development and support.

3. Useless; inaccessible. Antonym: live. Compare dead code.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:51 AM

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