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1. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
pnambic

    /p*-nam'bik/ (From the scene in the film, "The Wizard
   of Oz" in which the true nature of the wizard is first
   discovered: "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain").
   A term coined by Daniel Klein  for a stage
   of development of a process or function that, owing to
   incomplete implementation or to the complexity of the system,
   requires human interaction to simulate or replace some or all
   of its actions, inputs or outputs.  The term may also be
   applied to a process or function whose apparent operations are
   wholly or partially falsified or one requiring
   prestidigitization.

   The ultimate pnambic product was "Dan Bricklin's Demo", a
   program which supported flashy user-interface design
   prototyping.

   There is a related maxim among hackers: "Any sufficiently
   advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo."
   See magic for illumination of this point.

   ["Open Channel", IEEE "Computer", November 1981].

   [Jargon File]

   (1994-11-01)


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