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Missed'em-five: N. Pejorative Hackerism For AT&T System V UNIX, Generally Used By {BSD} Partisans In A Bigoted Mood.
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:Missed'em-five: n. Pejorative hackerism for AT&T System V UNIX,
generally used by {BSD} partisans in a bigoted mood. (The
synonym `SysVile' is also encountered.) See {software bloat},
{Berzerkeley}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
Missed'em-five n. Pejorative hackerism for AT&
T System V Unix, generally used by BSD partisans in a bigoted mood....
Berzerkeley: /b*r-zer'klee/ [from `berserk', via the name of a now-deceased record label] n.
Humorous distortion of `Berkeley' used esp. to refer to the practices or products of the {BSD} UNIX hackers....
oftware bloat: n. The results of {second-system effect} or {creeping featuritis}.
Commonly cited examples include `ls(1)', {X}, {BSD}, {Missed'em-five}, and {OS/2}....
Berzerkeley /b*r-zer'klee/ n. [from `berserk', via the name of a now-deceased record label
poss. originated by famed columnist Herb Caen] Humorous distortion of `Berkeley' used esp....
Nightmare File System: n. Pejorative hackerism for Sun's Network File System (NFS).
In any nontrivial network of Suns where there is a lot of NFS cross-mounting, when one Sun goes down, the others often freeze up....
alker system: n. British hackerism for software that enables real-time chat or {talk mode}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
BSD: /B-S-D/ n. [abbreviation for `Berkeley System Distribution'] a family of {{UNIX}} versions for the {DEC} {VAX} and PDP-11 developed by Bill Joy and others at {Berzerkeley} starting around 1980
incorporating paged virtual memory, TCP/IP networking enhancements, and many other features....
bitty box: /bit'ee boks/ n. 1. A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it.
Especially used of small, obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal machines such as the Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80, or IBM PC....
eal operating system: n. The sort the speaker is used to.
People from the BSDophilic academic community are likely to issue comments like "System V?...