Moby

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Moby was hacker slang; it initially (from the model railroad world) had the generalized meaning, 'very large'. Via the 'moby memory' unit acquired for the MIT-AI ITS KA10, it also came to mean 'one complete PDP-10 address space' (i.e. 256K words).