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• In his '90 Usenix presentation, Dennis Ritchie reminded the audience that Steve Jobs stood at the same podium a few years back and announced that X-windows was brain-dead and would soon die.
  He was half-right. Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks....
• UNIX:: /yoo'niks/ [In the authors' words, "A weak pun on Multics"] n.
  (also `Unix') An interactive time-sharing system invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson after Bell Labs left the Multics project, originally so he could play games on his scavenged PDP-7....
• Unix /yoo'niks/ n. [In the authors' words, "A weak pun on Multic
  very early on it was `UNICS'] (also `UNIX') An interactive time-sharing system invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson after Bell Labs left the Multics project, originally so he could play games on his scavenged PDP-7....
• A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond the breaking point by computer-generated inputs.
  -- Dennis Ritchie...
• eal operating system n. The sort the speaker is used to.
  People from the BSDophilic academic community are likely to issue comments like "System V?...
• TWENEX /twe'neks/ n. The TOPS-20 operating system by DEC -- the second proprietary OS for the PDP-10 -- preferred by most PDP-10 hackers over TOPS-10 (that i
  by those who were not ITS or WAITS partisans). TOPS-20 began in 1969 as Bolt, Beranek &...
• MS-DOS:: /M-S-dos/ [MicroSoft Disk Operating System] n.
  A {clone} of {{CP/M}} for the 8088 crufted together in 6 weeks by hacker Tim Paterson, who is said to have regretted it ever since....
• operating system n. [techspeak] (Often abbreviated `OS') The foundation software of a machine
  hat which schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default interface to the user between applications....
• GCOS /jee'kohs/ n. A quick-and-dirty clone of System/360 DOS that emerged from GE around 1970
  originally called GECOS (the General Electric Comprehensive Operating System)....