The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
EXCH
/eks'ch@/, /eksch/, vt.
To exchange two things, each for the other; to swap places. If you point to
two people sitting down and say ?Exch!?, you are asking them to trade
places. EXCH, meaning EXCHange, was originally the name of a PDP-10
instruction that exchanged the contents of a register and a memory
location. Many newer hackers are probably thinking instead of the
PostScript exchange operator (which is usually written in lowercase).
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
EXCH
/eks'ch*/ or /eksch/ To exchange two things, each for
the other; to swap places. If you point to two people sitting
down and say "Exch!", you are asking them to trade places.
EXCH, meaning EXCHange, was originally the name of a PDP-10
instruction that exchanged the contents of a register and a
memory location.
Many newer hackers are probably thinking instead of the
PostScript exchange operator (which is usually written in
lowercase).
[Jargon File]
(1999-09-17)