From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Marc Donner <marc.donner@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Bringing a Chainsaw
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2022 17:47:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_TDu872LD6LD+89L_oNDCgSQaYX8i9O3mSFa+TvOrqY0Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALQ0xCCmDJ4L=pXDRH_ajwKtx9xqOqXykGFJUDT2BEgphK9rKg@mail.gmail.com>
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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 <marc.donner@gmail.com> 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 <marc.donner@gmail.com>
> 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 <ats@offog.org> wrote:
>>
>>> John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> 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 <ats@offog.org> <http://offog.org/>
>>>
>>
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-09 21:49 [TUHS] " Marc Donner
2022-12-09 22:49 ` [TUHS] " Rich Morin
2022-12-10 6:54 ` John Cowan
2022-12-10 9:10 ` Marc Donner
2022-12-10 16:54 ` Adam Sampson
2022-12-10 17:15 ` Marc Donner
2022-12-11 22:23 ` Marc Donner
2022-12-11 22:47 ` John Cowan [this message]
2022-12-11 22:50 ` Marc Donner
2022-12-12 1:32 ` John Cowan
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