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• 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'....
• Berzerkeley: /b*r-zer'klee/ [from `berserk', via the name of a now-deceased record label] n.
  Humorous distortion of `Berkeley' used esp. to refer to the practices or products of the {BSD} UNIX hackers....
• Stupids: n. Term used by {samurai} for the {suit}s who employ them
  uccinctly expresses an attitude at least as common, though usually better disguised, among other subcultures of hackers....
• 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....
• jolix: n. /joh'liks/ n.,adj. 386BSD, the freeware port of the BSD Net/2 release to the Intel i386 architecture by Bill Jolitz and friends.
  Used to differentiate from BSDI's port based on the same source tape, which is called BSD/386....
• 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}....
• creeping featurism: /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n. 1. Describes a systematic tendency to load more {chrome} and {feature}s onto systems at the expense of whatever elegance they may have possessed when originally designed.
  See also {feeping creaturism}. "You know, the main problem with {BSD} UNIX has always been creeping featurism....
• control-C: vi. 1. "Stop whatever you are doing." From the interrupt character used on many operating systems to abort a running program.
  Considered silly. 2. interj. Among BSD UNIX hackers, the canonical humorous response to "Give me a break!...
• Berzerkeley /b*r-zer'klee/ n. [from `berserk', via the name of a now-deceased record label
  poss. originated by famed columnist Herb Caen] Humorous distortion of `Berkeley' used esp....