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• BQS /B-Q-S/ adj. Syn. Berkeley Quality Software.
• 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 documentation, has been tested on at least two examples, and core dumps when anyone else attempts to use it....
• fragile: adj. Syn {brittle}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• 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....
• 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 documentation, has been tested on at least two examples, and core dumps when anyone else attempts to use it....
• hardwired: adj. 1. In software, syn. for {hardcoded}.
  2. By extension, anything that is not modifiable, especially in the sense of customizable to one's particular needs or tastes....
• New Jersey: [primarily Stanford/Silicon Valley] adj.
  Brain-damaged or of poor design. This refers to the allegedly wretched quality of such software as C, C++, and UNIX (which originated at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey)....
• dodgy: adj. Syn. with {flaky}. Preferred outside the U.S. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• locked up: adj. Syn. for {hung}, {wedged}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary