recent

adj 1: being new in a time not long past; "recent graduates"; "a

recent addition to the house"; "recent buds on the

apple trees"

2: of the immediate past or just previous to the present time;

"a late development"; "their late quarrel"; "his recent

trip to Africa"; "in recent months"; "a recent issue of

the journal" [syn: {late(a)}]

3: near to or not long before the present; "recent times"; "of

recent origin"

DRECNET

/drek'net/ [Yiddish/German "dreck", meaning filth] Deliberate

distortion of DECNET, a networking protocol used in the {VMS}

community. So called because DEC helped write the Ethernet

specification and then (either stupidly or as a malignant

customer-control tactic) violated that spec in the design of

DRECNET in a way that made it incompatible. See also

{connector conspiracy}.