FUBARs and microfortnights

From: CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Sun Oct 25 09:24:03 1998

>>Why do you have to remember when you have VMS HELP available? :-)

>Hey, that's cheating :-)
>The story I heard about uFortnights was a bit of an "in joke" within VMS
>development. There was obviously a concerted effort to make VMS
>documentation as dry as IBM stuff is perceived, so the developers put up
>this new unit to see how far up the chain of cleansing it would go before
>being "expunged". I hear that there was some surprise and embarrassment
>when it escaped to customers.

If that's the case, I wonder how "?SYS-F-FUBAR - Failed Unibus Address
Register" snuck in, too :-)

Tim.
Received on Sun Oct 25 1998 - 09:24:03 GMT