EXCH

jargon /eks'ch*/ or /eksch/ To exchange two things, each for

the other; to swap places. If you point to two people sitting

down and say "Exch!", you are asking them to trade places.

EXCH, meaning EXCHange, was originally the name of a PDP-10

instruction that exchanged the contents of a register and a

memory location.

Many newer hackers are probably thinking instead of the

PostScript exchange operator (which is usually written in

lowercase).

[Jargon File]

(1999-09-17)