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.
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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.
>
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> Adam Sampson <ats@offog.org>                         <http://offog.org/>
>