:berklix: /berk'liks/ n.,adj. [contraction of `Berkeley UNIX'] See
{BSD}. Not used at Berkeley itself. May be more common among
{suit}s attempting to sound like cognoscenti than among hackers,
who usually just say `BSD'.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
{BSD}. Not used at Berkeley itself. May be more common among
{suit}s attempting to sound like cognoscenti than among hackers,
who usually just say `BSD'.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- berklix /berk'liks/ n.,adj.
[contraction of `Berkeley
Unix'] See BSD.
Not used at Berkeley itself. May be more common... - 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... - Stupids: n. Term used by {samurai} for the {suit}s who
employ them;
succinctly expresses an attitude at least as common... - 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... - jolix: n. /joh'liks/ n.,adj. 386BSD, the freeware port of the
BSD Net/2 release to the Intel i386 architecture by Bill Jolitz and
friends.
Used to differentiate from BSDI's port based on the... - Missed'em-five: n. Pejorative hackerism for AT&T System V UNIX,
generally used by {BSD} partisans in a bigoted mood... - creeping featurism: /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n. 1. Describes a
systematic tendency to load more {chrome} and {feature}s onto
systems at the expense of whatever elegance they may have possessed
when originally designed.
See also {feeping creaturism}. "You know, the main... - control-C: vi. 1. "Stop whatever you are doing." From the
interrupt character used on many operating systems to abort a
running program.
Considered silly. 2. interj. Among BSD UNIX hackers... - 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...
From the same category:
- A strange enigma is man!"
"Someone calls him a soul concealed in an animal," I suggested.
"Winwood Reade is good upon the subject," said Holmes... - FROZEN ENTREES may be flung by members of opposing SWANSON SECTS.
Zippy the... - The few. The proud.
The decent taglines... - If you find a path with no obstacles,
it probably doesn't go anywhere... - Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands,
and goes to work...
