From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] A language question
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 09:44:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2MRj29EDBZUKCoxR16jL5SKJYtHFHQV2dyqESsGYiU3MA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W6-dzc75FAkYEETLYAOP=5EBWEcPY8RPDNnCPSryM83xg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 9:29 AM Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
> As an aside, I'd always been under the impression that the "AB" in "ABEND"
> comes from, "abnormal"?
>
That was what taught when I was hacking on TSS/360 (before I even saw UNIX).
The term was used in the IBM batch system to say your job died or
stopped with an abnormal ending (*i.e.* The job returned exit(NONZEROVALUE) to
the OS in UNIX terms [or the OS killed it for some reason and forced it to
exit in that manner].
As for Richard's question about abort(), no idea. I had heard the term
used to kill off an errant process/job/task used in other systems before I
ever came to Unix. You'd probably need some like Doug M or Knuth that
goes back far enought to help you with history.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-01 13:23 Richard Salz
2021-09-01 13:28 ` Dan Cross
2021-09-01 13:44 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2021-09-01 14:23 ` Paul Winalski
2021-09-01 14:29 ` John Cowan
2021-09-01 15:59 ` Ron Natalie
2021-09-01 18:09 ` Warner Losh
2021-09-01 18:43 ` John Cowan
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