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From: rrw@naucse.UUCP (Robert Wier)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: LOA's
Message-ID: <1863@naucse.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 90 19:38:22 GMT
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
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 Some of you graybeards in computing out there may remember that
 programmer reference cards (those multi-folded brochure size
 list of opcodes, interrupt locations, etc) were at one time called
 LOAs or "Little Orphan Annies".  I have never come across a 
 description of the origin of this term (presumably it's an 
 "ibm-ism" considering how early it occurred)...
 
 If you have any hints, please e-mail me or post here.
 I'd like to have this information to pass along to my classes
 in the nature of a "war story"...

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