:HP-SUX: /H-P suhks/ n. Unflattering hackerism for HP-UX,
Hewlett-Packard's UNIX port, which features some truly unique bogosities
in the filesystem internals and elsewhere (these occasionally create
portability problems). HP-UX is often referred to as `hockey-pux'
inside HP, and one respondent claims that the proper pronunciation
is /H-P ukkkhhhh/ as though one were about to spit. Another such
alternate spelling and pronunciation is "H-PUX" /H-puhks/.
Hackers at HP/Apollo (the former Apollo Computers which was
swallowed by HP in 1989) have been heard to complain that
Mr. Packard should have pushed to have his name first, if for no
other reason than the greater eloquence of the resulting acronym.
Compare {AIDX}, {buglix}. See also {Nominal Semidestructor},
{Telerat}, {Open DeathTrap}, {ScumOS}, {sun-stools}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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HP-SUX /H-P suhks/ n.
Unflattering hackerism for
HP-UX Hewlett-Packard's Unix port, which features some truly
unique bogosities in the filesystem internals and elsewhere (these
occasionally create portability problems)....
