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Un-stools N. Unflattering Hackerism For SunTools, A Pre-X Windowing Environment Notorious In Its Day For Size, Slowness, And Misfeatures.
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sun-stools n.
Unflattering hackerism for SunTools, a
pre-X windowing environment notorious in its day for size,
slowness, and misfeatures. X, however, is larger and (some
claim) slower; see second-system effect.
Related:
un-stools: n. Unflattering hackerism for SunTools, a pre-X windowing environment notorious in its day for size, slowness, and misfeatures.
{X}, however, is larger and slower; see {second-system effect}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
Microsloth Windows: /mi:'kroh-sloth` win'dohz/ n. Hackerism for `Microsoft Windows'
a windowing system for the IBM-PC which is so limited by bug-for-bug compatibility with {mess-dos} that it is agonizingly slow on anything less than a fast 486....
BrokenWindows n. Abusive hackerism for the crufty and elephantine X environment on Sun machine
properly called `OpenWindows'....
Telerat /tel'*-rat/ n. obs. Unflattering hackerism for `Teleray', a now-extinct line of extremely losing terminals.
Compare AIDX, Macintrash N ScumOS, sun-stools, HP-SUX...
Telerat: /tel'*-rat/ n. Unflattering hackerism for `Teleray', a line of extremely losing terminals.
Compare {AIDX}, {Macintrash} {Nominal Semidestructor}, {Open DeathTrap}, {ScumOS}, {sun-stools}, {HP-SUX}....
Microsloth Windows /mi:'kroh-sloth` win'dohz/ n. (Variants combine {Microshift, Macroshaft, Microsuck} with {Windoze, WinDOS}.
Hackerism(s) for `Microsoft Windows'. A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition....
ScumOS /skuhm'os/ or /skuhm'O-S/ n. Unflattering hackerism for SunOS
he BSD Unix variant supported on Sun Microsystems's Unix workstations (see also sun-stools), and compare AIDX, Macintrash, HP-SUX....
ScumOS: /skuhm'os/ or /skuhm'O-S/ n. Unflattering hackerism for SunOS
he UNIX variant supported on Sun Microsystems's UNIX workstations (see also {sun-stools}), and compare {AIDX}, {Macintrash}, {Nominal Semidestructor}, {Open DeathTrap}, {HP-SUX}....
oftware bloat n. The results of second-system effect or creeping featuritis.
Commonly cited examples include ls(1), X, BSD, Missed'em-five...