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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (05 January 2017) [foldoc]:
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)