from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
high moby
/hi:' mohb'ee/, n.
The high half of a 512K {PDP-10}'s physical address space; the other
half was of course the low moby. This usage has been generalized in a
way that has outlasted the {PDP-10}; for example, at the 1990
Washington D.C. Area Science Fiction Conclave (Disclave), when a
miscommunication resulted in two separate wakes being held in
commemoration of the shutdown of MIT's last {ITS} machines, the one on
the upper floor was dubbed the `high moby' and the other the `low
moby'. All parties involved {grok}ked this instantly. See {moby}.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
high moby
/hi:' mohb'ee/ The high half of a 512K {PDP-10}'s physical
address space; the other half was of course the low moby.
This usage has been generalised in a way that has outlasted
the {PDP-10}; for example, at the 1990 Washington D.C. Area
Science Fiction Conclave (Disclave), when a miscommunication
resulted in two separate wakes being held in commemoration of
the shutdown of MIT's last {ITS} machines, the one on the
upper floor was dubbed the "high moby" and the other the "low
moby". All parties involved {grok}ked this instantly. See
{moby}.
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