[TUHS] Bringing a Chainsaw

[Marc Donner]

If so, please rewrite my garbling of Mike's comments into something
resembling English :-)
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On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 5:47 PM John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:

> Thanks again!  I'll pass this on to Eric Raymond, current maintainer of
> the Jargon File.
>
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 5:24 PM Marc Donner <marc.donner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I heard from Mike Cowlishaw about the IBM jargon items "branch to
>> Fishkill" and "branch to Owego"
>>
>> They reflect a set of site pairs within IBM in which one site designed
>> and made hardware (Fishkill, Owego) and another site designs and builds
>> software (Kingston, Endicott).  To the software folks the hardware world
>> was esoteric and weird, hence the branch targets for weirdness were the
>> hardware sites.
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>> nygeek.net
>> mindthegapdialogs.com/home <https://www.mindthegapdialogs.com/home>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 12:15 PM Marc Donner <marc.donner at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Mike is an old friend ... I will send him a copy of "Bringing a
>>> Chainsaw" and ask ... I don't think he was in Yorktown at the time but I
>>> probably told him about the work while it was happening.
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>>> nygeek.net
>>> mindthegapdialogs.com/home <https://www.mindthegapdialogs.com/home>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 11:56 AM Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org>                         <http://offog.org/
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>
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