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• Weenix /wee'niks/ n. 1. [ITS] A derogatory term for Unix, derived from Unix weenie.
  According to one noted ex-ITSer, it is "the operating system preferred by Unix Weenie...
• UNIX weenie: [ITS] n. 1. A derogatory play on `UNIX wizard', common among hackers who use UNIX by necessity but would prefer alternatives.
  The implication is that although the person in question may consider mastery of UNIX arcana to be a wizardly skill, the only real skill involved is the ability to tolerate (and the bad taste to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is alleged to infest many UNIX programs....
• Unix weenie n. [ITS] 1. A derogatory play on `Unix wizard', common among hackers who use Unix by necessity but would prefer alternatives.
  The implication is that although the person in question may consider mastery of Unix arcana to be a wizardly skill, the only real skill involved is the ability to tolerate (and the bad taste to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is alleged to infest many Unix programs....
• ITS /I-T-S/ n. 1. Incompatible Time-sharing System, an influential though highly idiosyncratic operating system written for PDP-6s and PDP-10s at MIT and long used at the MIT AI Lab.
  Much AI-hacker jargon derives from ITS folklore, and to have been `an ITS hacker' qualifies one instantly as an old-timer of the most venerable sort....
• VMS: /V-M-S/ n. DEC's proprietary operating system for its VAX minicompute
  one of the seven or so environments that loom largest in hacker folklore....
• weenie: n. 1. [on BBSes] Any of a species of luser resembling a less amusing version of {BIFF} that infests many {BBS} systems.
  The typical weenie is a teenage boy with poor social skills travelling under a grandiose {handle} derived from fantasy or heavy-metal rock lyrics....
• UNIX conspiracy: [ITS] n. According to a conspiracy theory long popular among {{ITS}} and {{TOPS-20}} fa
  UNIX's growth is the result of a plot, hatched during the 1970s at Bell Labs, whose intent was to hobble AT&T's competitors by making them dependent upon a system whose future evolution was to be under AT&T's control....
• ponge: [UNIX] n. A special case of a {filter} that reads its entire input before writing any outpu
  he canonical example is a sort utility. Unlike most filters, a sponge can conveniently overwrite the input file with the output data stream....
• VMS /V-M-S/ n. DEC's proprietary operating system for its VAX minicompute
  one of the seven or so environments that loom largest in hacker folklore....