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Article #623556Re: Eudora Source Code Released
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 15:54
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 15:54
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pechter@ascii.(none) (William Pechter) writes: >In article <pe6v6...@news4.newsguy.com>, >Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: >>On 2018-05-24, Gareth's Downstairs Computer >><headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> On 24/05/2018 12:19, Huge wrote: >>> >>>> (Is anyone gong to get upset about "FUBAR", unless spelled out in full?) >>> >>> FUCTI >>> FINO >> >>I always thought of it as a three-stage process: >> >>SNAFU - Situation Normal, All F*cked Up >>TADFU - Things Are Definitely F*cked Up >>FUBAR - F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition (or Repair) >> >>-- >>/~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) >>\ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. >> X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. >>/ \ Fight low-contrast text in web pages! http://contrastrebellion.com > >I'm still surprised the VAX 11/780 had the Failed Unibus Address >Register when the PDP11 couldn't have a SEX instruction (replaced with >Sign ExTend (SXT) -- the PDP11/34 still had the SEX Multiplexer on the >board. Burroughs had the Write Hardware Register (WHR) and Search Linked lisT (SLT) instructions. Pronunciation left to your imagination. Large systems main process creation internal MCP function was called motherforker.
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