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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>green card</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="green-bytes.html" title="green bytes"/><link rel="next" href="green-lightning.html" title="green lightning"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">green card</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="green-bytes.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="green-lightning.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="green-card"/><dt xmlns="" id="green-card"><b>green card</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [after the <i class="citetitle">IBM System/360 Reference Data</i>
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card] A summary of an assembly language, even if the color is not green and
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not a card. Less frequently used now because of the decrease in the use of
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assembly language. “<span class="quote">I'll go get my green card so I can check the
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addressing mode for that instruction.</span>”</p></dd><dd><p>The original green card became a yellow card when the System/370 was
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introduced, and later a yellow booklet. An anecdote from IBM refers to a
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scene that took place in a programmers' terminal room at Yorktown in 1978.
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A <a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a> overheard one of the programmers ask another
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“<span class="quote">Do you have a green card?</span>” The other grunted and passed the
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first a thick yellow booklet. At this point the luser turned a delicate
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shade of olive and rapidly left the room, never to return.</p><p>In fall 2000 it was reported from Electronic Data Systems that the
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green card for 370 machines has been a blue-green booklet since
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1989.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="green-bytes.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="green-lightning.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">green bytes </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> green lightning</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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