2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
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high moby
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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/hi: mohbee/ , n. The high half of a 512K PDP-10 's physical address space;
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the other half was of course the low moby. This usage has been generalized
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in a way that has outlasted the PDP-10 ; for example, at the 1990 Washington
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D.C. Area Science Fiction Conclave (Disclave), when a miscommunication
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resulted in two separate wakes being held in commemoration of the shutdown
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of MIT's last ITS machines, the one on the upper floor was dubbed the high
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moby and the other the low moby. All parties involved grok ked this
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instantly. See moby.
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