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• unic adj. Syn. obscure. VMS fans sometimes refer to Unix as `Runix'
  Unix fans return the compliment by expanding VMS to `Very Messy Syntax' or `Vachement Mauvais Systè...
• VMS: /V-M-S/ n. DEC's proprietary operating system for its VAX minicompute
  one of the seven or so environments that loom largest in hacker folklore....
• VMS /V-M-S/ n. DEC's proprietary operating system for its VAX minicompute
  one of the seven or so environments that loom largest in hacker folklore....
• Weenix: /wee'niks/ [ITS] n. A derogatory term for {{UNIX}}, derived from {UNIX weenie}.
  According to one noted ex-ITSer, it is "the operating system preferred by Unix Weenie...
• dink: /dink/ adj. Said of a machine that has the {bitty box} nature
  a machine too small to be worth bothering with --- sometimes the system you're currently forced to work on....
• hell [orig. Multics n. techspeak, widely propagated via Unix] 1.
  [techspeak] The command interpreter used to pass commands to an operating system...
• ponge: [UNIX] n. A special case of a {filter} that reads its entire input before writing any outpu
  he canonical example is a sort utility. Unlike most filters, a sponge can conveniently overwrite the input file with the output data stream....
• forked: [UNIX; prob. influenced by a mainstream expletive] adj.
  Terminally slow, or dead. Originated when one system was slowed to a snail's pace by an inadvertent {fork bomb}....
• Installing unix fixes the [VMS] bug.