释义 |
high moby high moby/hi:' mohb'ee/ The high half of a 512K PDP-10's physicaladdress space; the other half was of course the low moby.This usage has been generalised in a way that has outlastedthe PDP-10; for example, at the 1990 Washington D.C. AreaScience Fiction Conclave (Disclave), when a miscommunicationresulted in two separate wakes being held in commemoration ofthe shutdown of MIT's last ITS machines, the one on theupper floor was dubbed the "high moby" and the other the "lowmoby". All parties involved grokked this instantly. Seemoby. |