Will do! On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 5:50 PM Marc Donner wrote: > If so, please rewrite my garbling of Mike's comments into something > resembling English :-) > ===== > nygeek.net > mindthegapdialogs.com/home > > > On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 5:47 PM John Cowan 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 >> 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 >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 12:15 PM Marc Donner >>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 11:56 AM Adam Sampson wrote: >>>> >>>>> John Cowan 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 was probably the source >>>>> for >>>>> this -- it includes both "branch to Fishkill" and "branch to Owego" >>>>> with >>>>> exactly this definition. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Adam Sampson < >>>>> http://offog.org/> >>>>> >>>>