[TUHS] Re: Bringing a Chainsaw

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/ >>> > >>> >>