10 Dec
2022
10 Dec
'22
11:15 p.m.
Mike is an old friend ... I will send him a copy of "Bringing a Chainsaw"
and ask ... I don't think he was in Yorktown at the time but I probably
told him about the work while it was happening.
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On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 11:56 AM Adam Sampson <ats(a)offog.org> wrote:
John Cowan <cowan(a)ccil.org> writes:
Some editions of the Jargon File contain an entry
for _branch to
Fishkill_, defined as "Any unexpected jump in a program that produces
catastrophic or just plain weird results" and attributed to IBM.
Mike Cowlishaw's IBM Jargon and General Computing Dictionary, Tenth
Edition <http://www.comlay.net/ibmjarg.pdf> was probably the source for
this -- it includes both "branch to Fishkill" and "branch to Owego"
with
exactly this definition.
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