"Phil W Lee" phil(at)lee-family(dot)me(dot)uk wrote in message
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It wasn't just the names being different at ICL though, they did some
strange stuff all of their own.

I heard that management insisted on the General Origin of Data (the
operating system's initial global pointer) being renamed.

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