Telerat /tel'*-rat/ n. obs.
Unflattering hackerism for
`Teleray', a now-extinct line of extremely losing terminals.
Compare AIDX, Macintrash N
ScumOS, sun-stools, HP-SUX,
Unflattering hackerism for
`Teleray', a now-extinct line of extremely losing terminals.
Compare AIDX, Macintrash N
ScumOS, sun-stools, HP-SUX,
Related:
- Telerat: /tel'*-rat/ n. Unflattering hackerism for `Teleray',
a line of extremely losing terminals. Compare {AIDX}... - ScumOS /skuhm'os/ or /skuhm'O-S/ n.
Unflattering
hackerism for SunOS,
the BSD Unix variant supported on Sun Microsystems's... - ScumOS: /skuhm'os/ or /skuhm'O-S/ n. Unflattering hackerism
for SunOS,
the UNIX variant supported on Sun Microsystems's UNIX... - Open DeathTrap: n. Abusive hackerism for the Santa Cruz
Operation's `Open DeskTop' product,
a Motif-based graphical interface over their UNIX... - HP-SUX: /H-P suhks/ n. Unflattering hackerism for HP-UX,
Hewlett-Packard's UNIX port, which features some truly... - Internet Exploder
[very common] Pejorative hackerism for
Microsoft's "Internet Explorer" web browser (also "Internet
Exploiter").
Compare HP-SUX, AIDX, buglix Macintrash, Telerat, ScumOS... - HP-SUX /H-P suhks/ n.
Unflattering hackerism for
HP-UX,
Hewlett-Packard's Unix port, which features some truly... - terminak: /ter'mi-nak`/ [Caltech, ca. 1979] n. Any
malfunctioning computer terminal.
A common failure mode of Lear-Siegler ADM 3a terminals... - buglix: /buhg'liks/ n. Pejorative term referring to {DEC}'s ULTRIX
operating system in its earlier *severely* buggy versions.
Still used to describe ULTRIX, but without nearly so...
From the same category:
- test n.
1. Real users bashing on a prototype long enough to
get thoroughly acquainted with it,
with careful monitoring and followup of the results... - overclock /oh'vr-klok'/ vt.
To operate a CPU or other
digital logic device at a rate higher than it was designed for,
under the assumption that the manufacturer put some... - huff v.
To compress data using a Huffman code. Various
programs that use such methods have been called `HUFF' or some
variant thereof.
Oppose puff. Compare crunch, compress... - berklix /berk'liks/ n.,adj.
[contraction of `Berkeley
Unix'] See BSD.
Not used at Berkeley itself. May be more common... - not ready for prime time adj.
Usable, but only just so;
not very robust; for internal use only. Said of...
