Path: ...!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!not-for-mail From: John Levine Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.arch Subject: Re: Signetics 25120 WOM Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 20:40:27 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Taughannock Networks Message-ID: References: <87a5dt5lxb.fsf@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 20:40:27 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="50307"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" In-Reply-To: <87a5dt5lxb.fsf@localhost> Cleverness: some X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: johnl@iecc.com (John Levine) Bytes: 2080 Lines: 26 According to Lawrence D'Oliveiro : >>> Back in the 1970s, Signetics put out a joke data sheet for a >>> “Write-Only Memory” chip. ... >> >> It was all the rage. When I was a grad students in the 1970s some wag >> put a sign over the door to the break room saying >> >> SIGWOM HQ > >I assume the “SIG” part was a nod to the various “Special Interest Groups” >that were part of the Association for Computing Machinery, a group >responsible for several Comp Sci research periodicals, like >“Communications of the ACM” and “Journal of the ACM”. Of course it was. >The SIGs did their own publications. As a student, I was a regular reader >of “SIGPLAN Notices”, the periodical of the SIG on Programming Languages. >It was one of the less formal ones. I published a few notes in SIGPLAN back in the day. -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly