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From: king@cell.mot.COM (Steven King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FOOBAR (aka FUBAR)
Message-ID: <907@canary3.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 90 23:35:28 GMT
References: <8901@nigel.udel.EDU>
Organization: Motorola Inc. - Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL 60004
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>FUBAR is also a hardware register on the VAX unibus adapter. When a fault 
>happens on the Unibus, the FUBAR is latched with the address of the failing
>device! FUBAR in Vax lingo stands for Failed Unibus Bus Address Register.!!!

Definately sounds like a case of the acronym coming before the phrase,
something akin to the chicken coming before the egg.  See also "DDT" and
"Dynamic Debugging Tool"...  :-)

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