[cctalk] Re: Old mainframe humor

I believe in the late 70's or early 80's Byte magazine did an April Fool's issue that had many of those instructions but other than Halt and Catch Fire I think the best one was: EXOP    Execute Operator  (Use of this instruction has been deprecated due to shrinking programmer pool) /The fact that that is a double entendre just makes it even better than any of the others that I have seen./ A few others I liked: HALTI   Halt Intermittently SPEOT  Seek Past End of Tape (Common DECTAPE problem) A few other related things I have seen: "On a clear disk you can seek forever" "Dark Emitting Diode" "Stop this RIM RAM or I will DEC you" And a couple of acronyms: *M*aybe *I* *C*an *R*ip *O*ff *S*ome *O*ther *F*ailed *T*echnology *W*hy *I*nvest *N*eedless *D*ollars *O*n *W*orking *S*oftware On 12/10/2024 5:59 PM, Donald Whittemore via cctalk wrote: