[TUHS] Re: Bringing a Chainsaw

If so, please rewrite my garbling of Mike's comments into something resembling English :-) ===== nygeek.net mindthegapdialogs.com/home <https://www.mindthegapdialogs.com/home> On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 5:47 PM John Cowan &lt;cowan(a)ccil.org&gt; wrote: > Thanks again! I'll pass this on to Eric Raymond, current maintainer of > the Jargon File. > > On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 5:24 PM Marc Donner &lt;marc.donner(a)gmail.com&gt; > wrote: > >> I heard from Mike Cowlishaw about the IBM jargon items "branch to >> Fishkill" and "branch to Owego" >> >> They reflect a set of site pairs within IBM in which one site designed >> and made hardware (Fishkill, Owego) and another site designs and builds >> software (Kingston, Endicott). To the software folks the hardware world >> was esoteric and weird, hence the branch targets for weirdness were the >> hardware sites. >> ===== >> nygeek.net >> mindthegapdialogs.com/home <https://www.mindthegapdialogs.com/home> >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 12:15 PM Marc Donner &lt;marc.donner(a)gmail.com&gt; >> wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> ===== >>> nygeek.net >>> mindthegapdialogs.com/home <https://www.mindthegapdialogs.com/home> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 11:56 AM Adam Sampson &lt;ats(a)offog.org&gt; wrote: >>> >>>> John Cowan &lt;cowan(a)ccil.org&gt; 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. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Adam Sampson &lt;ats(a)offog.org&gt; < >>>> http://offog.org/> >>>> >>>