Piggybacking

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  piggybacking
       
          1. A method for passing {acknowledgement frame}s and {data
          frame}s in the same direction along a line.
       
          2. The practice of increasing memory capacity by soldering


          chips on top of other chips.  The chip-enable or high address
          pins would be connected to the {address bus} by a flying lead.
          Many {Ohio Superboard}s were expanded to a massive 8K of {RAM}
          in this way.
       
          (1994-11-29)