OT: Fun with printer displays

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Bill Campbell wrote:

> Back in the days of punch cards and IBM 360s, I saw a parody of the
> ubiquitous green fold-out cards of 360 opcodes with thing like:
> 
> ROC Read Operator Character
> POP Punch Operator
> MCD Mangle Card in Card Reador
> BMT Break Mag Tape

I remember a similar list of assembler OP codes that included

   BH = Branch and Hang

and the ultimate in spaghetti code:
 
   FG = From Goto

as in "from point A, goto point B", totally out of line with A and B.

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