: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. See {software bloat}, {Missed'em-five},
{Berkeley Quality Software}.
Mainstream use of this term in reference to the cultural and
political peculiarities of UC Berkeley as a whole has been reported
from as far back as the 1960s.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
now-deceased record label] n. Humorous distortion of `Berkeley'
used esp. to refer to the practices or products of the
{BSD} UNIX hackers. See {software bloat}, {Missed'em-five},
{Berkeley Quality Software}.
Mainstream use of this term in reference to the cultural and
political peculiarities of UC Berkeley as a whole has been reported
from as far back as the 1960s.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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[from `berserk', via
the name of a now-deceased record label;
poss. originated by famed columnist Herb Caen] Humorous... - Berkeley Quality Software: adj. (often abbreviated `BQS') Term used
in a pejorative sense to refer to software that was apparently
created by rather spaced-out hackers late at night to solve some
unique problem.
It usually has nonexistent, incomplete, or incorrect... - Missed'em-five: n. Pejorative hackerism for AT&T System V UNIX,
generally used by {BSD} partisans in a bigoted mood... - Berkeley Quality Software adj.
(often abbreviated `BQS')
Term used in a pejorative sense to refer to software that was
apparently created by rather spaced-out hackers late at night to
solve some unique problem.
It usually has nonexistent, incomplete, or incorrect... - BQS: /B-Q-S/ adj. Syn. {Berkeley Quality Software}.
The AI Hackers... - berklix: /berk'liks/ n.,adj. [contraction of `Berkeley UNIX'] See
{BSD}.
Not used at Berkeley itself. May be more common among... - 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... - BSD /B-S-D/ n.
[abbreviation for `Berkeley Software
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... - Sun n.
Sun Microsystems. Hackers remember that the name
was originally an acronym,
Stanford University Network. Sun started out around...
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