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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 grokked this
instantly. See moby.
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