To add my .02 worth there was also the programmer that thought seek
times referred to a New Delhi newspaper
In EE, a stable 'Q' point was often understood to mean where the horses
lined up for their oats.
and DeMorgan's theorem can be reduced to 'change everything and it will
still do the same'
My all-time favourite was the PDP11 processor manual that actually got
out before the footnote 'plus 20 minutes on a Saturday night' referring
to the Sign Extend signal delayed for 40 ns after MSync was caught by
marketing and the manuals ordered recalled!
sorry,
Nigel
On 2024-12-10 19:31, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
I believe in the late 70's or early 80's Byte magazine did an April
Fool's issue that had many of those instructions but other than Halt
and Catch Fire I think the best one was:
EXOP Execute Operator (Use of this instruction has been deprecated
due to shrinking programmer pool)
/The fact that that is a double entendre just makes it even better
than any of the others that I have seen./
A few others I liked:
HALTI Halt Intermittently
SPEOT Seek Past End of Tape (Common DECTAPE problem)
A few other related things I have seen:
"On a clear disk you can seek forever"
"Dark Emitting Diode"
"Stop this RIM RAM or I will DEC you"
And a couple of acronyms:
*M*aybe *I* *C*an *R*ip *O*ff *S*ome *O*ther *F*ailed *T*echnology
*W*hy *I*nvest *N*eedless *D*ollars *O*n *W*orking *S*oftware
On 12/10/2024 5:59 PM, Donald Whittemore via cctalk wrote:
NEAT/3 instructions
www.myimagecollection.com/webdocs/neat3.pdf
Misc instructions
www.myimagecollection.com/webdocs/pl-o.pdf
Misc Assembler
www.myimagecollection.com/webdocs/miscassembler.pdf
IBM beginnings
www.myimagecollection.com/webdocs/beginning.pdf
New IBM OS
www.myimagecollection.com/webdocs/newibmos.pdf
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