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• 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...
• Open DeathTrap: n. Abusive hackerism for the Santa Cruz Operation's `Open DeskTop' product, a Motif-based graphical interface over their UNIX.
  The funniest part is that this was coined by SCO's own developers....
• 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}....
• HP-SUX: /H-P suhks/ n. Unflattering hackerism for HP-UX
  Hewlett-Packard's UNIX port, which features some truly unique bogosities in the filesystem internals and elsewhere (these occasionally create portability problems)....
• erminak: /ter'mi-nak`/ [Caltech, ca. 1979] n. Any malfunctioning computer terminal.
  A common failure mode of Lear-Siegler ADM 3a terminals caused the `L' key to produce the `K' code instead...
• Nominal Semidestructor: n. Soundalike slang for `National Semiconductor', found among other places in the 4.
  3BSD networking sources. During the late 1970s to mid-1980s this company marketed a series of microprocessors including the NS16000 and NS32000 and several variants....
• buglix: /buhg'liks/ n. Pejorative term referring to {DEC}'s ULTRIX operating system in its earlier *severely* buggy versions.
  Still used to describe ULTRIX, but without nearly so much venom....
• AIDX: n. /aydkz/ n. Derogatory term for IBM's perverted version of UNIX, AIX, especially for the AIX 3.
  ? used in the IBM RS/6000 series (some hackers think it is funnier just to pronounce "AIX" as "aches")....
• 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....