Joke Mnemonics

From: Peter C. Wallace <pcw_at_mesanet.com>
Date: Fri Jun 7 11:24:57 2002

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, John Lawson wrote:

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> Back In The Day (mid 70s) I was doing a design based on the Z80 stuff.
> Someone doctored up and circulated several of the relevant datasheets.
> Among the japery therein was :
>
> JGL - Jump and Get Lost
> BGR - Branch for no Good Reason
> SBW - Shift Both Ways
> SSP - Sharpen Stack Pointer (After much use, they apparently get dull)
> RWO - Registers Write Only
> CRA - Convert to Random Address
> IBD - Interpolate Data Bits
> CSR - Context Sensitive Reset
>
> and my personal favorite
>
> POF - Power On Fail
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> The data sheets also had numerous other little details... one I liked
> was the address line's rise-time called out as: "6:45 AM, Mon -> Fri"
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> Cheers
>
> John
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Reminds me of the same vintage Signetics data sheet for the 9046 bit Write
Only Memory.

Always liked the "Pins remaining versus socket insertions" chart...

Peter Wallace
Received on Fri Jun 07 2002 - 11:24:57 BST