19 Feb
2014
19 Feb
'14
10:38 a.m.
On 02/19/2014 09:49 AM, Rich Alderson wrote:
However, I heard this in the 1970s in the context of
transferring data between
IBM 370 architecture data centers (and it was "mag tapes" in that context).
Just another folkloric data point.
Yup. I'm relatively sure that I heard it or some other similar thing
during the 70s also. As I recall, Tanenbaum would use the example in
his presentations, but the CN 4th Ed. may be the first time it occurred
in print--which, after all, is the gold standard for quotation collectors.
--Chuck