[1] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

high moby /hi:' mohb'ee/ n. the high half of a 512k pdp-10's physical
   address space; the other half was of course the low moby. this usage has
   been generalized in a way that has outlasted the pdp-10; for example,
   at the 1990 washington d.c. area science fiction conclave disclave,
   when a miscommunication resulted in two separate wakes being held in
   commemoration of the shutdown of mit's last its machines, the one on
   the upper floor was dubbed the `high moby' and the other the `low moby'.
   all parties involved grokked this instantly. see moby.


see also:
pdp-10 its grok moby 

[2] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

high moby
     
        /hi:' mohb'ee/ the high half of a 512k pdp-10's physical
        address space; the other half was of course the low moby.
        this usage has been generalised in a way that has outlasted
        the pdp-10; for example, at the 1990 washington d.c.  area
        science fiction conclave disclave, when a miscommunication
        resulted in two separate wakes being held in commemoration of
        the shutdown of mit's last its machines, the one on the
        upper floor was dubbed the "high moby" and the other the "low
        moby".  all parties involved grokked this instantly.  see
        moby.
     
        jargon file
     
     
see also:
pdp-10 its grok moby jargon file 

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