Moby

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From Salon • May 6, 2013

Thus "moby," meaning large, is said to derive from Melville's Moby Dick, though some say from Moby Pickle.

From Time Magazine Archive

The high half of a 512K PDP-10's physical address space; the other half was of course the low moby.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.

Node:high moby, Next:highly, Previous:high bit, Up:= H = high moby /hi:' mohb'ee/ n.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.

Common interjections are    "What a loss!" and "What a moby loss!"

From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Raymond, Eric S.