10 Dec
2022
10 Dec
'22
3:10 p.m.
Interesting. I never heard “branch to Fishkill” until today.
On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 1:54 AM John Cowan <cowan(a)ccil.org> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 4:50 PM Marc Donner <marc.donner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
(Recently I mentioned to Doug McIlroy that I had infiltrated IBM East
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Fishkill, reputedly one of the largest
semiconductor fabs in the world,
with UNIX back in the 1980s. He suggested that I write it up and share it
here, so here it is.)
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. Are you
familiar with this term? Did it have a specific reference within IBM?
In any case, this is a great story!