Non-Paged Pool sign (1/3)

Very Geeky Joke sign

Back in the late 1980s, one of Digital Equipment Corp's VAX/VMS operating system developers planted this sign.

VMS OS has two types of kernel memory pools to allocate from -- paged which can be swapped out and non-paged which can not move. Clearly this pool is of the latter type.

DEC was bought by Compaq which in turn was bought by Hewlett-Packard -- but the sign survives unchanged!

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