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  • ITS
    /I-T-S/ n. 1. Incompatible Time-sharing System, an influential but highly idiosyncratic operating system written for PDP-6s and PDP-10s at MIT and long used at... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


    •  View Definition: network meltdown 

    network meltdown

    n. A state of complete network overload; the network equivalent of thrashing. This may be induced by a Chernobyl packet. See also broadcast storm, {kamikaze packet}.