[TUHS] Bringing a Chainsaw

[Marc Donner]

Interesting.  I never heard “branch to Fishkill” until today.

On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 1:54 AM John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 4:50 PM Marc Donner <marc.donner at gmail.com> wrote:
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> (Recently I mentioned to Doug McIlroy that I had infiltrated IBM East
>> Fishkill, reputedly one of the largest semiconductor fabs in the world,
>> with UNIX back in the 1980s.  He suggested that I write it up and share it
>> here, so here it is.)
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> Some editions of the Jargon File contain an entry for _branch to
> Fishkill_, defined as "Any unexpected jump in a program that produces
> catastrophic or just plain weird results" and attributed to IBM.  Are you
> familiar with this term?  Did it have a specific reference within IBM?
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> In any case, this is a great story!
>
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