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high moby

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.