You want silly?
I spent some years on UNIVAC 1100 systems, which had a Meta-Assembler named
"MASM". (Meta-Assemblers, BTW, smoke Macro Assemblers any day of the
week... though, really, "C" is just a meta-assembler for the PDP-11.)
Anyway, on with my story.
In what was (I suspect) a response to bizarre opcodes (like BOSO: "Branch
On Sleepy Operator") for the 360/69, some wag inside UNIVAC came out with
new "operators" for MASM, as part of the "Organic Assembler" (I think you
can guess what it's name was...)
A<<<<<<B is A teenier than B? (This was a recursive operation
which did some odd arithmetic on a one's complement machine)
It had the extra remark:
if both A and B are *really* teeny the machine will rust out
before a result is produced.
I've got other 1100 stories (like the Bell Labs port of System III to is
that would run under Exec-8... uh, OS-1100) but they're unlikely to be as
entertaining in this venue. (Just ask Ken Hall, he'll back me up on this.)
Here's some more trival, this time from the Ancient Burroughs 6700, which
had symmetric multiprocessing a LONG time ago (and, no, I don't think
trying to port Linux to such a machine would be much fun): the Processor
Operator instruction "Interrupt Other Processors" had the mnemonic of HEYU.
And, contrary to popular belief, I'm not making this up.
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Windows.
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On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 03:38:26PM -0600, McKown, John wrote:
> Is that more or less than "oodles"? <grin> I.e. how many oodles per gob?
1.414 milliparsec-barns per gob. You can look it up anywhere in the
western spiral arm.
(is this silly, or what?)
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