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From: haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (Jim Haynes)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Summary: more B5500 MCP variable names
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Date: 23 Feb 89 07:22:07 GMT
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It's starting to all come back to me now.  Some more procedure names
from the venerable B5500.  For debugging data communication there was
a feature that saved the last few result descriptors in a circular
buffer.  This was called the septictank  and the feature was called
septic tanking.  It was associated with arrays yeccch, argggh, and stink.

The utility program to read the septic tank was called roto/rooter

All B5500 programs had two-part names like that.  There was a Navy
facility in Florida that had a program for reformatting Fortran
programs.  It was called mack/truck

(all in caps, of course; no lower case with 6-bit BCL code)

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