[TUHS] Bringing a Chainsaw

[Adam Sampson]

John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> writes:

> 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.

Mike Cowlishaw's IBM Jargon and General Computing Dictionary, Tenth
Edition <http://www.comlay.net/ibmjarg.pdf> was probably the source for
this -- it includes both "branch to Fishkill" and "branch to Owego" with
exactly this definition.

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