:SOS: n.,obs. /S-O-S/ 1. An infamously {losing} text editor.
Once, back in the 1960s, when a text editor was needed for the
PDP-6, a hacker crufted together a {quick-and-dirty} `stopgap
editor' to be used until a better one was written. Unfortunately,
the old one was never really discarded when new ones (in
particular, {TECO}) came along. SOS is a descendant (`Son of
Stopgap') of that editor, and many PDP-10 users gained the dubious
pleasure of its acquaintance. Since then other programs similar in
style to SOS have been written, notably the early font editor BILOS
/bye'lohs/, the Brother-In-Law Of Stopgap (the alternate expansion
`Bastard Issue, Loins of Stopgap' has been proposed). 2. /sos/
vt. To decrease; inverse of {AOS}, from the PDP-10 instruction
set.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Once, back in the 1960s, when a text editor was needed for the
PDP-6, a hacker crufted together a {quick-and-dirty} `stopgap
editor' to be used until a better one was written. Unfortunately,
the old one was never really discarded when new ones (in
particular, {TECO}) came along. SOS is a descendant (`Son of
Stopgap') of that editor, and many PDP-10 users gained the dubious
pleasure of its acquaintance. Since then other programs similar in
style to SOS have been written, notably the early font editor BILOS
/bye'lohs/, the Brother-In-Law Of Stopgap (the alternate expansion
`Bastard Issue, Loins of Stopgap' has been proposed). 2. /sos/
vt. To decrease; inverse of {AOS}, from the PDP-10 instruction
set.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- SOS /S-O-S/
n.,obs. An infamously losing text
editor
Once, back in the 1960s, when a text editor was needed... - vi: /V-I/, *not* /vi:/ and *never* /siks/ [from
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A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for... - TECO /tee'koh/ n.,v. obs.
1. [originally an acronym for
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later, `Text Editor and COrrector'] n. A text editor... - EMACS /ee'maks/ n.
[from Editing MACroS] The ne plus
ultra of hacker editors
a programmable text editor with an entire LISP system... - vi /V-I/, not /vi:/ and never /siks/ n.
[from `Visual Interface'] A screen editor crufted together by
Bill Joy for an early BSD release
Became the de facto standard Unix editor and a nearly... - mung: /muhng/ [in 1960 at MIT, `Mash Until No Good'
sometime after that the derivation from the {{recursive... - WAITS:: /wayts/ n. The mutant cousin of {{TOPS-10}} used on a
handful of systems at {{SAIL}} up to 1990
There was never an `official' expansion of WAITS... - PDP-10: [Programmed Data Processor model 10] n. The machine that
made timesharing real
It looms large in hacker folklore because of its... - mung /muhng/ vt.
[in 1960 at MIT, `Mash Until No Good'
sometime after that the derivation from the recursive...
