[HN Gopher] Scram Switch ___________________________________________________________________ Scram Switch Author : tosh Score : 25 points Date : 2021-03-30 11:42 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.catb.org) (TXT) w3m dump (www.catb.org) | evo_9 wrote: | Scram is actually an acronym: - Start - Cutting - Right - Away - | Man | | Basically it was how they shut-down nuclear reactors by cutting a | rope that would drop the controls rods into the reactor. | | Side-note: I know this because I played an Atari 800 game called | SCRAM growing up. It was pretty good! | | Also reminds me of SNAFU - Situation Normal All Fucked Up. | LukeShu wrote: | That acronym of SCRAM also appears to be a myth. | | https://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2016/02/18/refresh-putti... | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram#Etymology | iandinwoodie wrote: | > In general, this is not something you frob lightly | ddevault wrote: | 9front offers the "scram" command to immediately power off the | machine, likely making your filesystem grumpy. | mauvehaus wrote: | Fortunately, thanks to existence of a Wikipedia article, we don't | have to take ESR's word for the etymology of the word. The | article is neutral in asserting that Fermi coined the acronym, | but does suggest that the usage derived from the existing usage | of scram, meaning to GTFO with all due expediency. Other possible | expansions are posited to be backronyms: | | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-03-31 23:00 UTC)