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• UN*X: n. Used to refer to the UNIX operating system (a trademark of AT&T) in writing, but avoiding the need for the ugly {(TM)} typography.
  Also used to refer to any or all varieties of Unixoid operating systems....
• TM): // [USENET] ASCII rendition of the trademark-superscript symbol appended to phrases that the author feels should be recorded for posterity, perhaps in future editions of this lexicon.
  Sometimes used ironically as a form of protest against the recent spate of software and algorithm patents and `look and feel' lawsuits....
• TM) // [Usenet] ASCII rendition of the trademark-superscript symbol appended to phrases that the author feels should be recorded for posterity, perhaps in future editions of this lexicon.
  Sometimes used ironically as a form of protest against the recent spate of software and algorithm patents and `look and feel' lawsuits....
• glob /glob/, not /glohb/ v.,n. [Unix; common] To expand special characters in a wildcarded name, or the act of so doing (the action is also called `globbing').
  The Unix conventions for filename wildcarding have become sufficiently pervasive that many hackers use some of them in written English, especially in email or news on technical topics....
• Linux /lee'nuhks/ or /li'nuks/, not /li:'nuhks/ n.
  The free Unix workalike created by Linus Torvalds and friends starting about 1991....
• X /X/ n. 1. Used in various speech and writing contexts (also in lowercase) in roughly its algebraic sense of `unknown within a set defined by context' (compare N).
  Thus, the abbreviation 680x0 stands for 68000, 68010, 68020, 68030, or 68040, and 80x86 stands for 80186, 80286, 80386, 80486, 80586 or 80686 (note that a Unix hacker might write these as 680[0-6]0 and 80[1-6]86 or 680?...
• X: /X/ n. 1. Used in various speech and writing contexts (also in lowercase) in roughly its algebraic sense of `unknown within a set defined by context' (compare {N}).
  Thus, the abbreviation 680x0 stands for 68000, 68010, 68020, 68030, or 68040, and 80x86 stands for 80186, 80286 80386 or 80486 (note that a UNIX hacker might write these as 680[0-4]0 and 80[1-4]86 or 680?...
• RTFS /R-T-F-S/ [Unix] 1. imp. Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking Source'.
  Variant form of RTFM, used when the problem at hand is not necessarily obvious and not answerable from the manuals -- or the manuals are not yet written and maybe never will be....
• TWENEX /twe'neks/ n. The TOPS-20 operating system by DEC -- the second proprietary OS for the PDP-10 -- preferred by most PDP-10 hackers over TOPS-10 (that i
  by those who were not ITS or WAITS partisans). TOPS-20 began in 1969 as Bolt, Beranek &...