rrw@naucse.UUCP (Robert Wier) (02/09/90)
Some of you graybeards in computing out there may remember that programmer reference cards (those multi-folded brochure size list of opcodes, interrupt locations, etc) were at one time called LOAs or "Little Orphan Annies". I have never come across a description of the origin of this term (presumably it's an "ibm-ism" considering how early it occurred)... If you have any hints, please e-mail me or post here. I'd like to have this information to pass along to my classes in the nature of a "war story"... --------------------------------------------------------------------- - Bob Wier Northern Arizona University summer:Ouray, Colorado winter:Flagstaff, Arizona USENET: ...arizona!naucse!rrw | BITNET: WIER@NAUVAX | WB5KXH
lefty@twg.com (David N. Schlesinger) (02/14/90)
In article <1863@naucse.UUCP> rrw@naucse.UUCP (Robert Wier) writes: > Some of you graybeards in computing out there may remember that > programmer reference cards (those multi-folded brochure size > list of opcodes, interrupt locations, etc) were at one time called > LOAs or "Little Orphan Annies". Gee, the one I used on the IBM 360 was called a "green brain"; green for the color of the cardstock it was printed on... Not that this helps... Best, Lefty =========================================================================== David N. Schlesinger || "There's a word for it: words don't The Wollongong Group || mean a thing. There's a name for it; Internet: Lefty@twg.com || names make all the difference in the POTS: 415/962-7219 || world..." -- David Byrne ===========================================================================