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712 lines
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The following was found in our VMSHARE files as MEMO HUMORVM1:
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Gems from the Great Unwashed
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*** CREATED 07/17/85 23:12:55 BY VM1 ***
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Append on 07/17/85 at 23:13 by VM1:
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CASE M
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IN
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Assembly Language
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Instruction set for the VAX
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- - - - - - - - -
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AAC Alter All Commands
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AAD Alter All Data
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AAO Add And Overflow
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AAR Alter At Random
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AB Add Backwards
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ABR Add Beyond Range
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ACQT Advance Clock to Quitting Time
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ADB Another Damn Bug [UNIX]
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AFF Add Fudge Factor
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AFHB Align Fullword on Halfword Boundary
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AFP Abnormalized Floating Point
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AFVC Add Finagle's Variable Constant [the constant that must be added to
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make your data support your conclusions]
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AGB Add GarBage
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AI Add Improperly
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AIB Attack Innocent Bystander
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AMM Answer My Mail
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AOI Annoy Operator Immediate
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AR Alter Reality
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ARN Add and Reset to Non-zero
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ARZ Add and Reset to Zero
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AS Add Sideways
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AT Accumulate Trivia
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AWP Argue With Programmer
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AWTT Assemble With Tinker Toys
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BAC Branch to Alpha Centauri
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BAF Blow All Fuses
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BAH Branch And Hang
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BALC Branch And Link Cheeseburger
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BAW Bells And Whistles
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BB Branch on Bug
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BBBB Byte Baudy Bit and Branch
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BBI Branch on Burned-out Indicator
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BBL Branch on Burned-out Lamp
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BBLB Branch on Blinking Light Bulb
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BCB Burp and Clear Bytes
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BCF Branch on Chip box Full
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BCIL Branch Creating Infinite Loop
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BCR Backspace Card Reader
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BCU Be Cruel and Unusual
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BD Backspace Disk
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BD Branch to Data
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BDC Break Down and Cry
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BDM Branch and Disconnect Memory
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BDT Burn Data Tree [next opcode after decorate data tree]
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BE Branch Everywhere [As in HHGttG's Infinite Improbability Computer]
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BF Belch Fire
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BH Branch and Hang
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BLC Branch and Loop Continuous
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BLM Branch, Like, Maybe
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BLMWM Branch, Like, Maybe, wow, Man
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BLR Branch and Lose Return
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BM Branch Maybe
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BMI Branch on Missing Index
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BNA Branch to Nonexistent Address
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BNR Branch for No Reason
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BOD Branch on Operator Desperate
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BOP Boot Operator
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BOP Byte Operator
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BPB Branch on Program Bug
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BPD Branch on Programmer Debugging
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BPIM Bury Programmer In Manuals
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BPO Branch to Power Off
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BR Byte and Run
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BRA BRanch Anywhere
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BRA Branch to Random Address
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BRI BRanch Indefinitely
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BRO BRanch to Oblivion
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BRT BRanch on Tuesdays
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BSC Burst Selector Channel
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BSM Branch and Scramble Memory
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BSO Branch on Sleeping Operator
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BSST BackSpace and Stretch Tape
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BTD Byte The Dust
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BTJ Branch and Turn Japanese
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BTO Branch To Oblivion
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BW Branch on When
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BW Branch on Whim
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BWABL Bells, Whistles and Blinking Lights
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BWOP BeWilder Operator
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CAF Convert Ascii to Farsic
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CAI Corrupt Accounting Information
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CAIL Crash After I Leave
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CAT Confused And Tired [UNIX]
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CBA Compare and Branch Anyway
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CBNC Close, But No Cigar
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CBS Clobber BootStrap
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CC Call Calvary
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CC Crappy Control [UNIX]
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CCB Chocolate Chip Byte-mode
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CCB Consult Crystal Ball
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CCCI Clear Condition-Codes Indefinitely
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CCD Choke, Cough and Die
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CCD Clear Current Directory [this may really exist!]
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CCR Change Channels Random
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CCS Chinese Character Set
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CCWR Change Color of Write Ring
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CDR Complement Disk Randomly
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CFS Corrupt File Structure
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CG Convert to Garbage
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CH Create Havoc
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CHAPMR CHAse Pointers around Machine Room
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CIB Change Important Byte
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CIMM Create Imaginary Memory Map
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CM Circulate Memory
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CM Confuse Memory
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CMD CPU Melt Down
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CMD Compare Meaningless Data
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CMI Clobber Monitor Immediately
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CML Compute Meaning of Life (42)
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CMP Create Memory Prosthesis
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CMS Click MicroSwitch
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CN Compare Nonsensically
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CNB Cause Nervous Breakdown
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COLB Crash for Operator's Lunch Break
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COMF COMe From
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COS Copy Object Code to Source File
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COWHU Come Out With your Hands Up
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CP%FKM CPU - Flakeout mode
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CP%WM CPU - Weird Mode
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CPB Create Program Bug
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CPR Compliment PRogrammer("Aren't you cute!")
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CRASH Continue Running after Stop or Halt
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CRM Clear Random Memory
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CRN Convert to Roman Numerals
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CRYPT reCuRsive encrYPt Tape mnemonic [UNIX]
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CS Crash System
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CSL Curse and Swear Loudly
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CSN Call Supervisor Names
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CSNIO Crash System on Next I/O
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CSU Call Self Unconditional [the ultimate in recursive programming]
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CSYS Crash SYStem
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CTDMR Change Tape Density, Mid Record
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CUC Cheat Until Caught
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CVFL Convert Floating to Logical
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CVFP ConVert FORTRAN to PASCAL
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CVG ConVert to Garbage
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CWAH Create Woman And Hold
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CWDC Cut Wires and Drop Cores
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DA Develop Amnesia
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DAP De-select Active Peripheral
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DAUF Delete All Useless Files [would YOU trust a computer that far?]
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DBL Desegregate Bus Lines
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DBR Debase Register
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DBZ Divide By Zero
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DC Degauss Core
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DC Divide and Conquer
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DCAD Dump Core And Die
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DCD Drop Cards Double
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DCGC Dump Confusing Garbage to Console
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DCI Disk Crash Immediate
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DCON Disable CONsole
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DCT Drop Cards Triple
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DCWPDGD Drink Coffee, Write Program, Debug, Get Drunk
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DD Destroy Disk
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DD Drop Disk
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DDC Daily During Calculations
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DDOA Drop Dead On Answer
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DDS Delaminate Disk Surface
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DEB Disk Eject Both
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DEC Decompile Executable Code
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DEI Disk Eject Immediate
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DEM Disk Eject Memory
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DES Disk Eject Swapped
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DHTPL Disk Head Three Point Landing
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DIA Develop Ineffective Address
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DIIL Disable Interrupts and enter Infinite Loop
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DIRFW Do It Right For Once
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DISC DISmount CPU
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DK Destroy Klingons
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DK%WMM Disk Unit - Washing Machine Mode
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DKP Disavow Knowledge of Programmer
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DLN Don't Look Now...
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DLP Drain Literal Pool
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DMPE Decide to Major in Physical Education
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DMPK Destroy Memory Protect Key
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DO Divide and Overflow
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DOC Drive Operator Crazy
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DPC Decrement Program Counter
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DPK Destroy storage Protect Key
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DPMI Declare Programmer Mentally Incompetent
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DPR Destroy Program
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DPS Disable Power Supply
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DRAF DRAw Flowchart
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DRI Disable Random Interrupt
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DRT Disconnect Random Terminal
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DS Deadlock System
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DSH Destroy Sector Header
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DSI Do Something Interesting
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DSPK Destroy Storage Protect Key
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DSR Detonate Status register
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DSTD Do Something Totally Different
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DSUIT Do Something Utterly, Indescribably Terrible
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DT%FFP DecTape - Unload and Flappa-Flap
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DT%SHO DecTape - Spin Hubs Opposite
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DTC Destroy This Command
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DTI Do The Impossible
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DTRT Do The Right Thing
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DTVFL Destroy Third Variable From Left
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DU Dump User
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DUD Do Until Dead
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DW Destroy Work
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DW Destroy World
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DWIM Do What I Mean
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DWIT Do What I'm Thinking
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EBRS Emit Burnt Resistor Smell
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EC Eject Carriage
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ECL Early Care Lace
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ECO Electrocute Computer Operator
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ECP Erase Card Punch
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ED Eject Disk
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ED Execute Data
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ED Expunge Data [UNIX]
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EDD Eat Disk and Die
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EDIT Erase Data and Increment Time
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EDR Execute Destructive Read
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EDS Execute Data Segment
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EEP Erase Entire Program
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EFD Eject Floppy Disk
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EIAO Execute In Any Order
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EIO Erase I/O page
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EIOC Execute Invalid OpCode
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EIP Execute Programmer Immediately
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EJD%V EJect Disk with initial velocity V
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ELP Enter Loop Permanently
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EM Evacuate Memory
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EMSL Entire Memory Shift Left
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EMT Electrocute Maintenance Technician
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ENF Emit Noxious Fumes
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EO Electrocute Operator
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EOI Execute Operator Immediate [a fast version of another instruction]
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EP Execute Programmer
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EPI Execute Programmer Immediate
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EPP Eject Printer Paper
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EPS Electrostatic Print and Smear
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EPS Execute Program Sideways
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EPT Erase Process Table
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EPT Erase Punched Tape
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ERIC Eject Random Integrated Circuit
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ERM Erase Reserved Memory
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EROM Erase Read Only Memory
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EROS Erase Read Only Storage [Sounds like an IBM special!]
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ESB Eject Selectric Ball [from IBM selectric typewriter terminals]
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ESL Exceed Speed of Light
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ETI Execute This Instruction [for recursive programs]
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ETM Emulate Trinary Machine
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EVC Execute Verbal Commands
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EWD Execute Warp Drive
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EXECP EXECute Programmer
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EXX [A real instruction on the Zilog Z-80 -- Zilog is owned by EXXon]
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FB Find Bugs
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FCJ Feed Card and Jam
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FDR Fill Disk Randomly
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FFF Form Feed Forever
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FLD FLing Disc
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FLI Flash Lights Impressively
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FM Forget Memory
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FMP Finish My Program
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FOPC [Set] False Out-of-paper Condition
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FPC Feed Paper Continuously
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FPT Fire Photon Torpedoes
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FRG Fill with Random Garbage
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FSM Fold, Spindle and Mutilate
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FSRA Forms Skip and Run Away
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GBB Go to Back of Bus
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GCAR Get Correct Answer Regardless
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GDP Grin Defiantly at Programmer
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GDR Grab Degree and Run
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GENT GENerate Thesis
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GEW JO Go to the End of the World Jump Off
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GIE Generate Irreversible Error
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GLC Generate Lewd Comment
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GMC Generate Machine Check
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GMCC Generate Machine Check and Cash
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GND Guess at Next Digit
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GORS GO Real Slow
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GREM Generate Random Error Message
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GREP Global Ruin, Expiration and Purgation [UNIX]
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GRMC Generate Rubber Machine Check
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GS Get Strange [randomly inverts bits being fed to the instruction decoder]
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GSB Gulp and Store Bytes
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GSI Generate Spurious Interrupts
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GSU Geometric Shift Up
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HAH Halt And Hang
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HCF Halt and Catch Fire
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HCP Hide Central Processor [makes virtual CPU's act like virtual memories]
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HCRS Hang in Critical Section
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HDO Halt and Disable Operator
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HDRW Halt and Display Random Word
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HELP Type "No help available"
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HF Hide a File
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HGD Halt, Get Drunk
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HHB Halt and Hang Bus
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HIS Halt in Impossible State
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HOO Hide Operator's Output
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HRPR Hang up and Ruin Printer Ribbon
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HUAL Halt Until After Lunch
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IAND Illogical And
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IBR Insert Bugs at Random
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ICB Interrupt, crash and burn
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ICM Immerse Central Memory
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ICMD Initiate Core Melt-Down
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ICSP Invert CRT Screen Picture
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IDC Initiate Destruct Command
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IDI Invoke Divine Intervention
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IDPS Ignore Disk Protect Switch
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IEOF Ignore End Of File
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IF Invoke Force
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IGI Increment Grade Immediately
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IGIT Increment Grade Immediately Twice
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II Inquire and Ignore
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IIB Ignore Inquiry and Branch
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IIB Ignore Interrupt and Branch
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IIC Insert Invisible Characters
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IIL Irreversable Infinite Loop
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IM Imagine Memory
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IMPG IMPress Girlfriend
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INCAM INCrement Arbitrary Memory location
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INOP Indirect No-op
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IOI Ignore Operator's Instruction
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IOP Interrupt processor, Order Pizza
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IOR Illogical OR
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IP Increment and Pray
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IPS Incinerate Power Supply
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IPS Increment Processor Status
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IPT Ignite Paper Tape
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IRB Invert Record and Branch
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IRB Invert Record and Branch
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IRC Insert Random Commands
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IRE Insert Random Errors
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IRPF Infinite Recursive Page Fault
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ISC Ignore Supervisor Calls
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ISC Insert Sarcastic Comments
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ISI Increment and Skip on Infinity
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ISP Increment and Skip on Pi
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ITML Initiate Termites into Macro Library
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IU Ignore User
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JAA Jump Almost Always
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JFM Jump on Full Moon
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JHRB Jump to H&R Block
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JMAT JuMp on Alternate Thursdays
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JNL Jump when programmer is Not Looking
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JOM Jump Over Moon
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JRAN Jump RANdom [not to be confused with IRAN - Idiots random]
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JRCF Jump Relative and Catch Fire
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JRGA Jump Relative and Get Arrested
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JRN Jump RaNdom
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JRSR Jump to Random Subroutine
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JSU Jump Self Unconditional [the ultimate in iterative programming]
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JT Jump if Tuesday
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JTZ Jump to Twilight Zone
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JWN Jump When Necessary
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KUD Kill User's data
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LAGW Load And Go Wrong
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LAP Laugh At Program(mer)
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LCC Load and Clear Core
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LCD Load and Clear Disk
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LCK Lock Console Keyswitch
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LEB Link Edit Backwards
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LIA Load Ineffective Address
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LMB Lose Message and Branch
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LMO Load and Mug Operator
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LMYB Logical MaYBe
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LN Lose inode Number [UNIX]
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LOSM Log Off System Manager
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LP%PAS Line Printer - Print And Smear
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LP%RDD Line Printer - Reverse Drum Direction
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LP%TCR Line Printer - Tangle and Chew Ribbon
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LPA Lead Programmer Astray
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LRD Load Random Data
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LSBL Lose Super BLock [UNIX only]
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LWM Load Write-only Memory
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MAB Melt Address Bus
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MAN Make Animal Noises
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MAZ Multiply Answer by Zero
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MBC Make Batch Confetti
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MBH Memory Bank Hold-up
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MBTD Mount Beatles on Tape Drive
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MBTOL Move Bugs to Operator's Lunch
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MC Move Continuous
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MD Move Devious
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MDB Move and Drop Bits
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MDDHAF Make Disk Drive Hop Across Floor [Stevans's favorite (he made it up)]
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MLP Multiply and Lose Precision
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MLR Move and Lose Record
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MLSB Memory Left Shift and Branch
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MMLG Make Me Look Good
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MNI Misread Next Instruction
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MOP Modify Operator's Personality
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MOU MOunt User [causes computer to screw you once again]
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MPLP Make Pretty Light Pattern
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MSGD Make Screen Go Dim
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MSIP Make Sure Plugged In
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MSR Melt Special Register
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MT%HRDV MagTape - High speed Rewind and Drop Vacuum
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MTI Make Tape Invalid
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MW Malfunction Whatever
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MWC Move and Wrap Core
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MWT Malfunction Without Telling
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NTGH Not Tonight, I've Got a Headache
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OCF Open Circular File
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OML Obey Murphy's Law
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OPP Order Pizza for Programmer
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OSI Overflow Stack Indefinitely
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OTL Out To Lunch
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PAS Print And Smear
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PAUD PAUse Dramatically
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PAZ Pack Alpha Zone
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PBC Print and Break Chain
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PBD Print and Break Drum
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PBM Pop Bubble Memory
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PBPBPBP Place Backup in Plain Brown Paper Bag, Please [for stealing code]
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PBST Play Batch mode Star Trek
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PCI Pleat Cards Immediate
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PCR Print and Cut Ribbon
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PD Punch Disk
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PEHC Punch Extra Holes in Cards
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PFE Print Floating Eye [Roguers look out!]
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PFML Print Four Million Lines
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PI Punch Invalid
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PIBM Pretend to be an IBM
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PIC Print Illegible Characters
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PIC Punch Invalid Character
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PNRP Print Nasty Replies to Programmer
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PO Punch Operator
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POPN Punch OPerator's Nose
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PPA Print Paper Airplanes
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PPL Perform Perpetual Loop
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PPP Print Programmer's Picture
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PPSW Pack Program Status Word
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PRS PRint and Smear
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PSP Print and Shred Paper
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PSR Print and Shred Ribbon
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QWA Quit While Ahead
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RA Randomize Answer
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RAM Reorganize and Abort Monitor
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RASC Read And Shred Card
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RAST Read and Shred Tape
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RAST Rewind And Stretch Tape
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RAU Ridicule All Users
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RBAO Ring Bell and Annoy Operator
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RBG Random Bug Generate
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RBLY Restore Backup from Last Year
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RBT Read Blank Tape
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RBT Rewind and Break Tape
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RCAJ Read Card And Jam
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RCB Read Commands Backwards
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RCB Run Clock Backwards
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RCC Read Card and Chew
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RCCP Randomly Corrupt Current Process
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RCF Rewind Cabinet Fans
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RCKG Read Count Key and Garbage
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RCR Rewind Card Reader
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RCRV Randomly Convert to Reverse Video
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RCS Read Card, Scramble data
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RCSD Read Card and Scramble Data
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RDA Refuse to Disclose Answer
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RDD Reverse Disk Drive
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RDF Randomize Directory Filenames
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RDI Reverse Disk Immediate
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RENVR Rename Variables Randomly
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RET Read and Erase Tape
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RIC Rotate Illogical thru Carry
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RID Read Invalid Data
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RIR Read Invalid Record
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RIRG Read Inter-Record Gap
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RIRG Rewrite Inter-Record Gap [random replacement of similar mnemonic]
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RLC Re-read last card
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RLC Relocate and Lose Core
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RLI Rotate Left Indefinitely
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RLP Refill Light Pen
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RLP Rewind Line Printer
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RM Ruin My files [UNIX]
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RMI Randomize Memory Immediate
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RMV Remove Memory Virtues
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RNBS Reflect Next Bus Signal
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RN Read Noise
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RNR Read Noise Record
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ROD ROtate Diagonally
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ROM Read Operator's Mind
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ROOP Run Out Of Paper
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ROPF Read Other People's Files
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ROS Reject Op System
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ROT Rotate Disk [fixes broken drives]
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RP Read Printer
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RPB Raise Parity Bits
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RPBR Reverse Parity and BRanch
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RPM Read Programmer's Mind
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RPU Read character and Print Upside down
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RRB Read Record and Blush
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RRC Rotate Random thru Carry
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RRR Read Record and Run away
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RRRL Random Rotate Register Left
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RRSG Round and Round She Goes...
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RS Random Slew
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RSD Read and Scramble Data
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RST Rewind and Stretch Tape
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RT Reverse Throughput
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RTS Return To Sender
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SAD Seek And Destroy
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SAI Skip All Instructions
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SAS Sit And Spin
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SC Scramble Channels
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SC Shred Cards
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SCB Spindle Card and Belch
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SCCA Short Circuit on Correct Answer
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SCH Slit Cards Horizontal
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SCI Shred Cards Immediate
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SCOM Set Cobol-Only Mode
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SCRRC SCRamble Register Contents
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SCST Switch Channel to Star Trek
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SCTR Stick Card To Reader
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SD Scramble Directory
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SD Slip Disk
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SDC Spool Disk to Console
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SDDB Snap Disk Drive Belt
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SDE Solve Differential Equations
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SDI Self Destruct Immediately
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SEB Stop Eating and Burp
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SEX Set EXecution register [a real instruction for the RCA 1802]
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SEX Sign EXtend
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SFH Set Flags to Half mast
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SFT Stall For Time
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SFTT Strip Form Tractor Teeth
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SHB Stop and Hang Bus
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SHCD SHuffle Card Deck
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SHIT Stop Here If Thursday
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SHON Simulate HONeywell CPU [permanent NO-OP]
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SHRC SHRed Card
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SHRT SHRed Tape
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SID Switch to Infinite Density
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SLD Slip Disk
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SLP Sharpen Light Pen
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SMC Scramble memory contents
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SMD Spontaneous Memory Dump (Use only with classified data)
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SMS Shred Mylar Surface
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SMT Stretch MagTape
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SNM Show No Mercy
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SOAWP SOlve All the World's Problems
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SOB [a real PDP-11 instruction]
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SOD Surrender Or Die!
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SOP Stop and Order Pizza
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SOS Sign Off, Stupid
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SP Scatter Print
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SPA Sliding Point Arithmetic
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SPS Smoke Power Supply
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SPSW Scramble Processor Status Word
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SRBO Set Random Bits to Ones
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SRBZ Set Random Bits to Zeroes
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SRCC Select Reader and Chew Cards
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SRC Skip to Random Channel
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SRD Switch to Random Density
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SRDR Shift Right, Double Ridiculous
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SRO Sort with Random Ordering
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SRR Set Registers to Random values [usually used prior to a RET or RTS]
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SRR Shift Registers Random
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SRSD Seek Record and Scratch Disk
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SRU Signoff Random User
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SRZ Subtract and Reset to Zero
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SSB Scramble Status Byte
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SSD Seek and Score Disk [good for testing]
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SSJ Select Stacker and Jam
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SSJP Select Stacker and Jump
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SSM Solve by Supernatural Means
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SSP Smoke and SPark
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SST Stop and Stretch Tape
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ST Set and Test
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STD Stop, take drugs
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STPR SToP Rain
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STTHB Set Terminal to Three Hundred Baud
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SUI Subtract User's IQ
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SUME Surprise Me
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SUP Solve Unsolvable Problem
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SUR Screw Up Royally
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SUS Stop Until Spring
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SUS Subract Until Senseless
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SWAT SWAp Terminals
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SWN SWap Nibbles
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SWOS SWap out Operating System
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SWS Sort to Wrong Slots
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SZD Switch to Zero Density
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TARC Take Arithmetic Review Course
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TBFTG Two Burgers and Fries To Go
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TDB Transfer and Drop Bits
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TDS Trash Data Segment
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TLNF Teach me a Lesson I'll Never Forget
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TLO Turn indicator Lights Off
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TLW Transfer and Lose Way
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TN Take a Nap
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TOG Time Out, Graduate
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TOH Take Operator Hostage
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TOO Turn On/Off operator
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TOS Trash Operating System
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TPD Triple Pack Decimal
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TPDH Tell Programmer to Do it Him/Herself
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TPN Turn Power oN
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TPO Turn Power Off
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TPR Tear PapeR
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TR Turn into Rubbish [UNIX]
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TRA Te Rdls Arvs [Type Ridiculous Abbreviations]
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TSH Trap Secretary and Halt
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TSM Trap Secretary and Mount
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TST Trash System Tracks
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TT%CNK TeleType - Clunk Noise
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TT%EKB TeleType - Electrify KeyBoard
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TTA Try, Try Again
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TTITT Turn 2400 foot tape Into Two 1200 foot tapes [Only privileged users
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will get hubs on both tapes]
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TTL Time To Log off
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UAI Use Alternate Instruction set
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UCB Uncouple CPU and Branch
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UCK Unlock Console Keyswitch
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UCPUB Uncouple CPU's and Branch
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UER Update and Erase Record
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UMR Unlock Machine Room
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UOP Useless Operation
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UP Understand Program(mer)
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UTF Unwind Tape onto Floor
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UUBR Use Undefined Base Register
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VAX Violate All executions
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VNO Violate Noise Ordinance
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VPA Vanishing Point Arithmetic
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VVM Vaporise Virtual Memory
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WAD Walk Away in Disgust
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WC Waste Core [UNIX]
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WCR Write to Card Reader
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WGPB Write Garbage in Process-control Block
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WHP Wave Hands over Problem
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WI Why Immediate
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WID Write Invalid Data
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WNHR Write New Hit Record
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WNR Write Noise Record
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WPET Write Past End of Tape
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WSE Write Stack Everywhere
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WSWW Work in Strange and Wondrous Ways
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WUPO Wad Up Printer Output
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WWLR Write Wrong Length Record
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WWR Write Wrong Record
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XIO Execute Invalid Op code
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XKF Execute Kermit the Frog
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XMB Exclusive MayBe
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XOH Execute no-Op and Hang
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XOR Execute OperatoR
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XOS Exchange Operator's Sex
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XPR Execute Programmer
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XVF Exchange Virtue for Fun
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ZAP Zero and Add Packed
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ZD Zap Directory
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ZPI ZaP Immediate
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Source: Unknown
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Arty Ecock - CUNY/UCC
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*** APPENDED 07/17/85 23:13:06 BY VM1 ***
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*** CREATED 09/05/85 12:13:50 BY MUC/MARIE ***
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Append on 09/06/85 at 01:27 by Alan Ackerman, Bank of America, 415-622-9141:
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My favorite has always been HPO (Halt and Punch Operator).
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This preceded VM/HPO by many years.
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*** APPENDED 09/06/85 01:27:41 BY BAM/ACKERMAN ***
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Append on 09/08/85 at 12:20 by Bill Temps, First Chicago Corporation:
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RICSS - Run In Circles, Scream, and Shout
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(from an episode of `Lost in Space':
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Human: Oh, we are imperiled, whatever shall we do? (paraphrase)
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Robot: When in danger or in doubt /
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Run in circles, scream and shout.
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A philosophy i strive to emulate.)
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(wht3)
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*** APPENDED 09/08/85 12:20:47 BY FNC/WHT3 ***
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Append on 09/09/85 at 10:18 by Tom Foth, The Adesse Corporation:
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Government Opcode PRPQ (GOP)
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PAL Political Align Left
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PAR Political Align Right
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SAD Subtract and Add to Deficit
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SMBL Shift Military Budget Left
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(there is no SMBR instruction).
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GTP Gouge Tax Payer.
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ISCI Invade Small Carribean Island
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PB Pass buck
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*** APPENDED 09/09/85 10:18:52 BY ADE/TJFOTH ***
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