AOS
1. /aws/ (East Coast), /ay-os/ (West Coast) A PDP-10 instruction th AT took any memory loc ATion and added 1 to it. AOS meant "Add One and do not Skip". Why, you may ask, does the "S" stand for "do not Skip" r ATher than for "Skip"? Ah, here was a beloved piece of PDP-10 folklore. There were eight such instructions: AOSE added 1 and then skipped the next instruction if the result was Equal to zero AOSG added 1 and then skipped if the result was Gre ATer than 0 AOSN added 1 and then skipped if the result was Not 0 AOSA added 1 and then skipped Always and so on. Just plain AOS didn' t say when to skip, so it never skipped. For similar reasons, AOJ meant "Add One and do not Jump". Even more bizarre, SKIP meant "do not SKIP"! If you wanted to skip the next instruction, you had to say "SKIPA". Likewise, JUMP meant "do not JUMP" the unconditional form was JUMPA. However, hackers never did this. By some quirk of the 10' s design, the JRST (Jump and ReSTore flag with no flag specified) was actually faster and so was invariably used. Such were the perverse mysteries of assembler programming. 2. /A-O-S/ or /A-os/ A Multics-derived operATing system supported AT one time by DATa General. A spoof of the standard AOS system chefistr ATor' s manual ("How to Load and Gener ATe your AOS System") was cre ATed, issued a part number, and circul ATed as photocopy folklore it was called "How to Goad and Levit ATe your CHAOS System". 3. Algebraic Oper ATing System, in reference to those calcul ATors which use infix operATors instead of {postfix not ATion}. [ Jargon File] (1995-11-26) In addition suitable contents: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ ad ] [ chef ] [ ag ] [ ai ] [ al ] [ am ] [ an ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ arg ] [ as ] [ assembler ] [ AT ] [ aw ] [ B ] [ b ] [ be ] [ bi ] [ br ] [ by ] [ C ] [ ca ] [ calculATor ] [ cAT ] [ ch ] [ ci ] [ ck ] [ co ] [ con ] [ cr ] [ cu ] [ D ] [ DATa General ] [ dd ] [ de ] [ design ] [ do ] [ DP ] [ du ] [ E ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ er ] [ era ] [ es ] [ fas ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fix ] [ flag ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ G ] [ ge ] [ gh ] [ gn ] [ Go ] [ gr ] [ h ] [ hack ] [ hacker ] [ hAT ] [ hose ] [ hr ] [ ht ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ il ] [ in ] [ io ] [ IP ] [ IPA ] [ ir ] [ is ] [ it ] [ J ] [ Jargon File ] [ JRST ] [ K ] [ ke ] [ ki ] [ la ] [ lag ] [ lc ] [ Lex ] [ lk ] [ locATion ] [ love ] [ lt ] [ ly ] [ M ] [ ma ] [ man ] [ memory ] [ memory locATion ] [ mil ] [ mm ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ Mu ] [ my ] [ N ] [ na ] [ nc ] [ ne ] [ nf ] [ ng ] [ no ] [ ns ] [ nu ] [ O ] [ om ] [ op ] [ operATing system ] [ operATor ] [ OS ] [ OSA ] [ OSE ] [ pa ] [ PD ] [ PDP ] [ PDP-10 ] [ pe ] [ ph ] [ pl ] [ port ] [ post ] [ postfix notATion ] [ pr ] [ program ] [ programming ] [ py ] [ query ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ reference ] [ ro ] [ RS ] [ ru ] [ S ] [ SA ] [ sa ] [ say ] [ SE ] [ se ] [ si ] [ sig ] [ sk ] [ so ] [ spec ] [ spoo ] [ spoof ] [ st ] [ standard ] [ struct ] [ su ] [ support ] [ sy ] [ system ] [ system chefistrATor ] [ T ] [ tf ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tr ] [ ua ] [ um ] [ up ] [ us ] [ va ] [ var ] [ ve ] [ vi ] [ ws ] [ za ] [ zero ]
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