[net.misc] The Man form W.O.M.B.A.T.

daemon@decwrl.UUCP (01/14/84)

From: akov68::boyajian

    Come now, everyone should know that WOMBAT stands for:

	Write Only Memory Block Allocation Table


					---jayembee
					   (Jerry Boyajian @ DEC Maynard)
					   (decvax!decwrl!rhea!akov68!boyajian)

chuqui@nsc.UUCP (01/18/84)

I was always told that WOMBAT stood for:
	Write
	Only
	Memory
	BATch oriented

and was used by large mainframes to degrade system performance of on-line
systems so that DP managers could prove that converting to on-line systems
was a mistake!


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