Interesting stuff about "sex" on dictionary.com

[bamacre]

SEX

Read the ENTIRE page, and tell me you don't see some strange things here.

(Note: I was actually looking up the plural of "virus," and then I read about people exchanging software, and calling it SEX (Software EXchange, I later found out), I had to continue.)

Just interesting.

 

[Fritzo]

Is this what you mean?:

/seks/ [Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] 1. Software EXchange. A
technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of
millions of years ago to speed up their evolution, which had
been terribly slow up until then. Today, SEX parties are
popular among hackers and others (of course, these are no
longer limited to exchanges of genetic software). In general,
SEX parties are a Good Thing, but unprotected SEX can
propagate a virus. See also pubic directory.

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
Is this what you mean?:

/seks/ [Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] 1. Software EXchange. A
technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of
millions of years ago to speed up their evolution, which had
been terribly slow up until then. Today, SEX parties are
popular among hackers and others (of course, these are no
longer limited to exchanges of genetic software). In general,
SEX parties are a Good Thing, but unprotected SEX can
propagate a virus. See also pubic directory.

Yup!

 

[maziwanka]

wtf?!?!

 

[SoylentGreen]

That's really cute that you were looking up a the definition of sex.

 

[Leetman]

Weird.

 

[bamacre]

And I thought, this was strange, too....

DEC's engineers nearly got a PDP-11 assembler that used
the "SEX" mnemonic out the door at one time, but (for once)
marketing wasn't asleep and forced a change. That wasn't the
last time this happened, either. The author of "The Intel
8086 Primer", who was one of the original designers of the
Intel 8086, noted that there was originally a "SEX"
instruction on that processor, too. He says that Intel
management got cold feet and decreed that it be changed, and
thus the instruction was renamed "CBW" and "CWD" (depending on
what was being extended). The Intel 8048 (the
microcontroller used in IBM PC keyboards) is also missing
straight "SEX" but has logical-or and logical-and instructions
"ORL" and "ANL".

The Motorola 6809, used in the UK's "Dragon 32" personal
computer, actually had an official "SEX" instruction; the
6502 in the Apple II with which it competed did not.
British hackers thought this made perfect mythic sense; after
all, it was commonly observed, you could (on some theoretical
level) have sex with a dragon, but you can't have sex with an
apple.

Someone's going to have a new sig, I'd bet money on it!

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: SoylentGreen
That's really cute that you were looking up a the definition of sex.

I wondered how long it would take for someone to say this.

 

[bandana163]

That is so wrong.

 

[Tauren]

"pubic directory" *snicker-snicker*

 

[AFB]

DEC's engineers nearly got a PDP-11 assembler that used
the "SEX" mnemonic out the door at one time, but (for once)
marketing wasn't asleep and forced a change. That wasn't the
last time this happened, either. The author of "The Intel
8086 Primer", who was one of the original designers of the
Intel 8086, noted that there was originally a "SEX"
instruction on that processor, too. He says that Intel
management got cold feet and decreed that it be changed, and
thus the instruction was renamed "CBW" and "CWD" (depending on
what was being extended). The Intel 8048 (the
microcontroller used in IBM PC keyboards) is also missing
straight "SEX" but has logical-or and logical-and instructions
"ORL" and "ANL".

*snickers*

 

[Jzero]

People on a tech forum that are not familiar with The Jargon File/Hacker's Dictionary?! :shocked:

 

[Cyco]

People on a tech forum that remotely know what "sex" is....

 

[bamacre]

SEX? Oh, you mean software exchange?