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branch to Fishkill

(IBM: from the location of one of the corporation's facilities) Any unexpected jump in a program that produces catastrophic or just plain weird results.

See jump off into never-never land, hyperspace.

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Nearby terms:

branch prediction ♦ Branch Target Buffer ♦ branch to Fishkill ♦ Brazil ♦ BRB

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