[from the wormhole singularities hypothesized in some versions of
General Relativity theory]
1. [n.,obs.] A location in a monitor which contains the address of a
routine, with the specific intent of making it easy to substitute a
different routine. This term is now obsolescent; modern operating
systems use clusters of wormholes extensively (for modularization of
I/O handling in particular, as in the Unix device-driver
organization) but the preferred techspeak for these clusters is
`device tables', `jump tables' or `capability tables'.
2. [Amateur Packet Radio] A network path using a commercial satellite
link to join two or more amateur VHF networks. So called because
traffic routed through a wormhole leaves and re-enters the amateur
network over great distances with usually little clue in the message
routing header as to how it got from one relay to the other. Compare
{gopher hole} (sense 2).
[glossary]
[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {gopher hole}]