It was certainly featured a lot in the orange/grey walls as foo.bar for
filenames.....didn't they also use brer.bar as well?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Cherry [mailto:ncherry_at_home.net]
> Sent: 04 October 2000 20:55
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: You might be a VMS Bigot if.....
>
>
> Bill Pechter wrote:
> >
> > Damn...
> >
> > I was with you right through the fubar line.
> > Spent too many hours troubleshooting flaky Unibus problems on
> > 11/780's with semi-fried Unibus or UBA's.
> >
> > Hearing anyone decode the FUBAR makes me twitch.
>
> Uhmm isn't the computer version Foo bar as in Foo bar blatz zam zow
> (I'm not sure about the last ones anymore). I once named a 3B2 310
> Foobar and thought nothing of it. Management came to me and
> requested an
> explaination until they saw the spelling (I was on a support hotline,
> fubar is a fact of life there).
>
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Received on Thu Oct 05 2000 - 03:46:25 BST