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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: foo?
Message-ID: <584@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 21-Dec-86 01:23:31 EST
Article-I.D.: mcgill-v.584
Posted: Sun Dec 21 01:23:31 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 22-Dec-86 18:40:51 EST
References: <246@polyslo.UUCP> <5426@brl-smoke.ARPA> <159@andromeda.UUCP> <89@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk>
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In article <89@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk>, craig@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Craig Wylie) writes:
> In article <159@andromeda.UUCP> marco@andromeda.UUCP (the wharf rat) writes:
>>	Any DEC user knows that fubar means
>>        _F_ailed _U_ni_B_us _A_ddress _R_egister. As in
>>	"Your UniBus is, like, totally fubar, man"
> And I always thought that FUBAR stood for 
> 	F****d Up Beyond All Recognition
> you live and learn

It does.  That's what the "As in ..." comment is about.  Can't anyone
recognize a joke without a :-)?!

By the way, wharf rat isn't joking about the DEC meaning.  VAXen really
do have a failed UNIbus address register, and the documentation (eg,
the architecture reference manual) really does call it the FUBAR.

					der Mouse

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