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• 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....
• 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...
• Slowlaris /slo'-lahr-is/ n. [Usenet; poss. from the variety of sloth called a "slow loris".
  The variant `Slowlartus' is also common, related to LART] Common hackish term for Solaris, Sun's System VR4 version of UNIX that came out of the standardization wars of the early 1990s....
• ude: adj. Said of machines delivered without an operating system (compare {bare metal}).
  We ordered 50 systems, but they all arrived nude, so we had to spend a an extra weekend with the installation tapes....
• 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}....
• 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....
• Black Screen of Death n. [prob. related to the Floating Head of Death in a famous "Far Side" cartoon.
  ] A failure mode of Microsloth Windows. On an attempt to launch a DOS box, a networked Windows system not uncommonly blanks the screen and locks up the PC so hard that it requires a cold boot to recover....
• hysterical reasons: (also `hysterical raisins') n. A variant on the stock phrase "for historical reaso
  indicating specifically that something must be done in some stupid way for backwards compatibility, and moreover that the feature it must be compatible with was the result of a bad design in the first place....
• 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}....