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• jolix /joh'liks/ n.,adj. 386BSD, the freeware port of the BSD Net/2 release to the Intel i386 architecture by Bill Jolitz, Lynne Greer Jolitz, and friends.
  Used to differentiate from BSDI's port based on the same source tape, which used to be called BSD/386 and is now BSD/OS....
• 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'....
• fossil: n. 1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in historical context, as a remnant of times past retained so as not to break compatibility.
  Example: the retention of octal as default base for string escapes in {C}, in spite of the better match of hexadecimal to ASCII and modern byte-addressable architectures....
• Missed'em-five: n. Pejorative hackerism for AT&T System V UNIX, generally used by {BSD} partisans in a bigoted mood.
  (The synonym `SysVile' is also encountered.) See {software bloat}, {Berzerkeley}....
• drum: adj, n. Ancient techspeak term referring to slow, cylindrical magnetic media that were once state-of-the-art storage devices.
  Under BSD UNIX the disk partition used for swapping is still called `/dev/drum'...
• vi: /V-I/, *not* /vi:/ and *never* /siks/ [from `Visual Interface'] n.
  A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early {BSD} release....
• berklix /berk'liks/ n.,adj. [contraction of `Berkeley Unix'] See BSD.
  Not used at Berkeley itself. May be more common among suits attempting to sound like cognoscenti than among hackers, who usually just say `BSD'....
• 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 enhancements, and many other features....
• ogue: [UNIX] n. A Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game using character graphics, written under BSD UNIX and subsequently ported to other UNIX systems.
  The original BSD `curses(3)' screen-handling package was hacked together by Ken Arnold to support `rogue(6)' and has since become one of UNIX's most important and heavily used application libraries....