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 >>> > >>>> >>>