prime time
(From TV programming) Normal high-usage hours on a time-sharing system; the day
shift. Avoidance of prime time was traditionally given as a major reason for
night mode hacking. The rise of the personal workstation has rendered this term,
along with time-sharing itself, almost obsolete. The hackish tendency to
late-night hacking runs has changed not a bit.
[Jargon File]
(1995-01-18)
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