The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
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.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
high moby
/hi:' mohb'ee/ 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 generalised 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.
[Jargon File]