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  • Re: 2 mny abbrs, Getting started with Assembly language

    From John Levine@3:633/280.2 to All on Thu Nov 30 09:00:28 2023
    According to Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>:
    It wasn't me that wrote m/c. But I have seen it used for machine. Not
    recently though I think.

    [...]

    'm/c' for 'machine' was standard usage in the late '60s - early '70s;
    I was a hardware man fixing 2nd. gen. mainframes when they went t/u.


    Lemme guess - “tits up.”

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  • From Sn!pe@3:633/280.2 to All on Thu Nov 30 09:41:16 2023
    Reply-To: snipeco.1@gmail.com (Sn!pe)

    John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:

    According to Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>:
    It wasn't me that wrote m/c. But I have seen it used for machine. Not
    recently though I think.

    [...]

    'm/c' for 'machine' was standard usage in the late '60s - early '70s;
    I was a hardware man fixing 2nd. gen. mainframes when they went t/u.


    Lemme guess - ╲tits up.╡


    Temporarily Unavailable, of course. What else would it stand for?


    :o)

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