banana problem
= B =
bang
bandwidth n.
1. [common] Used by hackers (in a
generalization of its technical meaning) as the volume of
information per unit time that a computer, person, or transmission
medium can handle. "Those are amazing graphics, but I missed some
of the detail -- not enough bandwidth, I guess." Compare
low-bandwidth; see also brainwidth. This generalized
usage began to go mainstream after the Internet population
explosion of 1993-1994. 2. Attention span. 3. On Usenet, a
measure of network capacity that is often wasted by people
complaining about how items posted by others are a waste of
bandwidth.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.