From: "Bill Fairchild" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, 28 July 2011 8:26 AM
Memories of the Hosed System Architecture (AUG 1991 SHARE in Chicago) are flooding my short-term mercury delay lines; e.g., STFM (STore foxes under Mask), BPO (Branch if Power Off),
There was a comparable effect with the RCA Spectra (also ICL System 4). Power going off caused a hardware interrupt, with sufficient time for the OS to save all the registers.
HCL (Hose Characters Long). "Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?"
