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From: chriso@3comvax.UUCP (Chris Olds)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: origin of foo
Message-ID: <462@3comvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Mar-86 13:25:11 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 27 13:25:11 1986
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Keywords: fubar

[ I just saw a line eater in THIS newsgroup ]

One reference that no one has mentioned is DEC. Although it is certainly not
the origin of fubar, my Vax hardware handbook ('82-'83) lists a register
called the "Failed UNIBUS Address Registers" [sic] which is abbreviated, you
guessed it, FUBAR. From my reading of the handbook, if anything lands in
that register, things really are fubar.

Reference: Vax Hardware Handbook, 1982-83 , Digital Equipment Corp.,1982
Vax, UNIBUS, and DEC are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corp.
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	Chris "I call 'em as I see 'em" Olds
	hplabs!oliveb!3comvax!chriso