high moby
: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
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