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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>high moby</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="high-bit.html" title="high bit"/><link rel="next" href="highly.html" title="highly"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">high moby</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="high-bit.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="highly.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="high-moby"/><dt xmlns="" id="high-moby"><b>high moby</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/hi:´ mohb´ee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The high half of a 512K <a href="../P/PDP-10.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-10</i></a>'s physical
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address space; the other half was of course the low moby. This usage has
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been generalized in a way that has outlasted the
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<a href="../P/PDP-10.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-10</i></a>; for example, at the 1990 Washington D.C.
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Area Science Fiction Conclave (Disclave), when a miscommunication resulted
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in two separate wakes being held in commemoration of the shutdown of MIT's
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last <a href="../I/ITS.html"><i class="glossterm">ITS</i></a> machines, the one on the upper floor was
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dubbed the ‘high moby’ and the other the ‘low
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moby’. All parties involved <a href="../G/grok.html"><i class="glossterm">grok</i></a>ked this
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instantly. See <a href="../M/moby.html"><i class="glossterm">moby</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="high-bit.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="highly.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">high bit </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> highly</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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