At 15:58 -0400 on 07/13/2009, Bill Fairchild wrote about Re: AMBLIST Funny:
In the early 1970s I had a taste of the humor of the HASP development team when I saw their description of a problem in RETAIN. HASP, which ran on OS/360 in key 0 and could overlay any byte in central storage, had been guilty of "spraying bits at random". And in 1969 I saw Tom Simpson, the chief HASP developer, in action at two consecutive sessions at SHARE in Boston as he described HASP internals. He liberally peppered the dry material with ROTF humor.
I have the impression (remembrance?) of some great comments in the source code that had nothing to do with explaining what the statements did but instead were some off-hand quips like after going through a complex routine inside a loop when you got to the end of the routine and decided if you were going to loop back and run through the routine again you found the branch to the start of the loop marked something on the order of "That was so much fun, I'm going to do it again" or the complex routine itself being marked "Ta Dumb - Drum Roll Please" (I'm giving the type of comments and not claiming that they are actual comments that occurred).
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