Vaston

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  vaston n. [Durham, UK] The unit of `load average'. A measure of how
     much work a computer is doing. A meter displaying this as a function of
     time is known as a `vastometer'. First used during a computing practical
     in December 1996.