Message-ID: <361B96F2.664E@gazonk.del> Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 12:29:38 -0400 From: "Foobar T. Clown" Reply-To: foobar@gazonk.del Organization: Blurp X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTL... 3 References: <907728174@ablelink.org> <361B8D0B.3DD@gazonk.del> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.133.110.49 X-Trace: 7 Oct 1998 12:32:32 -0500, 198.133.110.49 Lines: 7 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.enteract.com!ix.netcom.com!zeus.nomos.com!198.133.110.49 I wrote something with no folkloric content: > > [...] This group tends to attract old-timers. [...] Please insert: The kind of people who know what the PDP-10 instruction, JUMP, was for. ###### From: helge@nareid.demon.co.uk (Helge Nareid) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTL... 3 Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 21:11:05 GMT Message-ID: <361cd6df.16265337@news.demon.co.uk> References: <907728174@ablelink.org> <361B8D0B.3DD@gazonk.del> <361B96F2.664E@gazonk.del> NNTP-Posting-Host: nareid.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: nareid.demon.co.uk:193.237.51.93 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 907794721 nnrp-01:18298 NO-IDENT nareid.demon.co.uk:193.237.51.93 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 22 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newscore.univie.ac.at!btnet-peer!btnet!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!demon!nareid.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail On Wed, 07 Oct 1998 12:29:38 -0400, "Foobar T. Clown" wrote: >I wrote something with no folkloric content: >> >> [...] This group tends to attract old-timers. [...] > >Please insert: > The kind of people who know what the PDP-10 > instruction, JUMP, was for. I don't know. I don't claim to be an old-timer, either. But then again, I don't post to this newsgroups very often... I do _read_ it, though. -- - Helge Nareid Nordmann i utlendighet, Aberdeen, Scotland ###### From: jvarela@mind.spring.com (John Varela) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTL... 3 Date: 7 Oct 1998 22:04:32 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <907728174@ablelink.org> <361B8D0B.3DD@gazonk.del> <361B96F2.664E@gazonk.del> <361cd6df.16265337@news.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: jvarela@mind.spring.com NNTP-Posting-Host: user-38lc49k.dialup.mindspring.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: ProNews/2 Version 1.00 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.belnet.be!newspump.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!firehose.mindspring.com!not-for-mail On Wed, 7 Oct 1998 21:11:05, helge@nareid.demon.co.uk (Helge Nareid) wrote: > On Wed, 07 Oct 1998 12:29:38 -0400, "Foobar T. Clown" > wrote: > > The kind of people who know what the PDP-10 > > instruction, JUMP, was for. > > I don't know. Me neither, but I do know what BPX01 meant. -- John Varela (delete . between mind and spring to e-mail me) ###### From: jmfbahciv@aol.com Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTL... 3 Date: Thu, 08 Oct 98 10:40:39 GMT Organization: UltraNet Communications, Inc. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <6vi94c$eha$4@ligarius.ultra.net> References: <907728174@ablelink.org> <361B8D0B.3DD@gazonk.del> <361B96F2.664E@gazonk.del> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.dial-12.mbo.ma.ultra.net X-Complaints-To: abuse@ultra.net X-Ultra-Time: 8 Oct 1998 11:53:48 GMT X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newscore.univie.ac.at!btnet-peer!btnet!newshub.northeast.verio.net!newsfeed.xcom.net!news.ultranet.com!d1 In article <361B96F2.664E@gazonk.del>, "Foobar T. Clown" wrote: >I wrote something with no folkloric content: >> >> [...] This group tends to attract old-timers. [...] > >Please insert: > The kind of people who know what the PDP-10 > instruction, JUMP, was for. Or a JFFO, or a CONO PI, or a JFCL or a ..... /BAH Sigh! - Subtract a hundred and four for e-mail. ###### From: info@fdhoekstra.nl Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTL... 3 Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 10:48:04 +0200 Organization: Drukkerij Uitgeverij F. D. Hoekstra bv Lines: 14 Message-ID: <361C7C44.4FD3@fdhoekstra.nl> References: <907728174@ablelink.org> <361B8D0B.3DD@gazonk.del> <361B96F2.664E@gazonk.del> NNTP-Posting-Host: zwl1-p46.worldonline.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.belnet.be!newsgate.cistron.nl!het.net!news.worldonline.nl!not-for-mail Foobar T. Clown wrote: > > I wrote something with no folkloric content: > > > > [...] This group tends to attract old-timers. [...] > > Please insert: > The kind of people who know what the PDP-10 > instruction, JUMP, was for. Hey, even I know that, and I'm not an old-timer; I've never even seen a PDP-10 in the flesh. Richard ###### From: jmfbahciv@aol.com Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTL... 3 Date: Thu, 08 Oct 98 11:03:56 GMT Organization: UltraNet Communications, Inc. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <6viag1$t39$3@strato.ultra.net> References: <907728174@ablelink.org> <361B8D0B.3DD@gazonk.del> <361B96F2.664E@gazonk.del> <361C7C44.4FD3@fdhoekstra.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.dial-12.mbo.ma.ultra.net X-Complaints-To: abuse@ultra.net X-Ultra-Time: 8 Oct 1998 12:17:05 GMT X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newscore.univie.ac.at!btnet-peer!btnet!newsfeed.cwix.com!209.244.253.199!newsfeed.xcom.net!news.ultranet.com!d1 In article <361C7C44.4FD3@fdhoekstra.nl>, info@fdhoekstra.nl wrote: >Foobar T. Clown wrote: >> >> I wrote something with no folkloric content: >> > >> > [...] This group tends to attract old-timers. [...] >> >> Please insert: >> The kind of people who know what the PDP-10 >> instruction, JUMP, was for. > >Hey, even I know that, and I'm not an old-timer; I've >never even seen a PDP-10 in the flesh. That's sad. You should have been able to experience a KI10 or a KA10; they had lights so that a user could tell if the system was going to crash or if the system was flying along or if a user was doing something really weird or if the monitor was doing something really weird. /BAH Sigh! - Subtract a hundred and four for e-mail. ###### From: Crash Johnson Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTL... 3 Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 23:20:43 -0400 Organization: Snow Crash Crew Lines: 19 Message-ID: <361D810B.32F4AC79@ezonline.nospam.com> References: <907728174@ablelink.org> <361B8D0B.3DD@gazonk.del> <361B96F2.664E@gazonk.del> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp180.ezonline.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; U) Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newscore.univie.ac.at!btnet-peer!btnet!newsfeed.cwix.com!207.44.3.66!news-out.microserve.net!news-in.microserve.net!not-for-mail JUMP error 404, height not found -- \-* )) The above is my opinion, Crash Johnson @8-)===// not necessarily reality; /-* // deal with it. remove spam for email Foobar T. Clown wrote: > > I wrote something with no folkloric content: > > > > [...] This group tends to attract old-timers. [...] > > Please insert: > The kind of people who know what the PDP-10 > instruction, JUMP, was for. ###### From: info@fdhoekstra.nl Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTL... 3 Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 15:14:09 +0200 Organization: Drukkerij Uitgeverij F. D. Hoekstra bv Lines: 26 Message-ID: <361E0C21.461D@fdhoekstra.nl> References: <907728174@ablelink.org> <361B8D0B.3DD@gazonk.del> <361B96F2.664E@gazonk.del> <361C7C44.4FD3@fdhoekstra.nl> <6viag1$t39$3@strato.ultra.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: zwl1-p97.worldonline.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.belnet.be!newsgate.cistron.nl!het.net!news.worldonline.nl!not-for-mail jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote: > > In article <361C7C44.4FD3@fdhoekstra.nl>, info@fdhoekstra.nl wrote: > >Foobar T. Clown wrote: > >> > >> I wrote something with no folkloric content: > >> > > >> > [...] This group tends to attract old-timers. [...] > >> > >> Please insert: > >> The kind of people who know what the PDP-10 > >> instruction, JUMP, was for. > > > >Hey, even I know that, and I'm not an old-timer; I've > >never even seen a PDP-10 in the flesh. > > That's sad. You should have been able to experience a > KI10 or a KA10; they had lights so that a user could > tell if the system was going to crash or if the system > was flying along or if a user was doing something really > weird or if the monitor was doing something really weird. Yeah, blinkenlichten... but nowadays we have them on our network hubs, and they're still pretty. Richard