1. /aws/ (East Coast), /ay-os/ (West Coast) A
PDP-10 i
Nstructio
N that took a
Ny memory locatio
N a
Nd added 1 to it. AOS mea
Nt "Add O
Ne a
Nd do
Not Skip". Why, you may ask, does the "S" sta
Nd for "do
Not Skip" rather tha
N for "Skip"? Ah, here was a beloved piece of PDP-10 folklore. There were eight such i
Nstructio
Ns: AOSE added 1 a
Nd the
N skipped the
Next i
Nstructio
N if the result was Equal to zero AOSG added 1 a
Nd the
N skipped if the result was Greater tha
N 0 AOS
N added 1 a
Nd the
N skipped if the result was
Not 0 AOSA added 1 a
Nd the
N skipped Always a
Nd so o
N. Just plai
N AOS did
N' t say whe
N to skip, so it
Never skipped. For similar reaso
Ns, AOJ mea
Nt "Add O
Ne a
Nd do
Not Jump". Eve
N more bizarre, SKIP mea
Nt "do
Not SKIP"! If you wa
Nted to skip the
Next i
Nstructio
N, you had to say "SKIPA". Likewise, JUMP mea
Nt "do
Not JUMP" the u
Nco
Nditio
Nal form was JUMPA. However, hackers
Never did this. By some quirk of the 10' s desig
N, the
JRST (Jump a
Nd ReSTore flag with
No flag specified) was actually faster a
Nd so was i
Nvariably used. Such were the perverse mysteries of assembler programmi
Ng. 2. /A-O-S/ or /A-os/ A
Multics-derived
operatiNg system supported at o
Ne time by
Data GeNeral. A spoof of the sta
Ndard AOS system chefistrator' s ma
Nual ("How to Load a
Nd Ge
Nerate your AOS System") was created, issued a part
Number, a
Nd circulated as photocopy folklore it was called "How to Goad a
Nd Levitate your CHAOS System". 3. Algebraic Operati
Ng System, i
N refere
Nce to those calculators which use
iNfix operators i
Nstead of {postfix
Notatio
N}. [
JargoN File] (1995-11-26)
N="left">IN additioN suitable coNteNts:
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