On 12/23/2010 7:13 AM, Rob van der Heij wrote:
Looks like all good ones are taken. I thought 'unbased' might work
(short enough to be useful) but you don't want your spell checker
trying correct you into 'unbiased' either..  when nothing else left, I
sometimes favor the politically tricky choices, like we called our
Linux guests "topless penguins"  (that did not have "top" installed)

If we're going with questionable appellations, I'll throw in
"strident" addressing. <g>

And I find the earlier remark about base registers being "old
fashioned" quite entertaining - some of us programmed without
base registers many years before the S/360 was released.

Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT

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