[TUHS] Bringing a Chainsaw

[John Cowan]

Will do!

On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 5:50 PM Marc Donner <marc.donner at gmail.com> wrote:

> If so, please rewrite my garbling of Mike's comments into something
> resembling English :-)
> =====
> nygeek.net
> mindthegapdialogs.com/home <https://www.mindthegapdialogs.com/home>
>
>
> 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.
>>> =====
>>> 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.
>>>> =====
>>>> 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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