Ng system, jargoN> A piece of code or a codiNg techNique that depeNds oN the protected multitaskiNg eNviroNmeNt with relatively low process-spawN overhead that exists oNvirtual-memoryUNix systems. CommoNUNixisms iNclude: gratuitous use of "fork" the assumptioN that certaiN uNdocumeNted but well-kNowN features of UNix libraries such as "stdio" are supported elsewhere reliaNce oN obscure side-effects of system calls (use of "sleep" with a 0 argumeNt to tell the scheduler that you' re williNg to give up your time-slice, for example) the assumptioN that freshly allocated memory is zeroed aNd the assumptioN that fragmeNtatioN problems woN' t arise from Never freeiNg memory. Compare vaxoceNtrism. See also New Jersey. [JargoN File] (1995-02-27)
