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• DEC Wars: n. A 1983 {USENET} posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms.
  Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called "UNIX WARS...
• holy wars: [from {USENET}, but may predate it] n. {flame war}s over {religious issues}.
  The paper by Danny Cohen that popularized the terms {big-endian} and {little-endian} in connection with the LSB-first/MSB-first controversy was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace"....
• holy wars n. [from Usenet, but may predate it; common] n.
  flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularized the terms big-endian and little-endian in connection with the LSB-first/MSB-first controversy was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace"....
• oid: [from `android'] suff. 1. Used as in mainstream English to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise slightly bogus resemblance.
  Hackers will happily use it with all sorts of non-Greco/Latin stem words that wouldn't keep company with it in mainstream English....
• UTSL: // [UNIX] n. On-line acronym for `Use the Source, Luke' (a pun on Obi-Wan Kenobi's "Use the Force, Luke!
  in "Star Wars") --- analogous to {RTFS} (sense 1), but more polite....
• elevator controller: n. An archetypal dumb embedded-systems application, like {toaster} (which superseded it).
  During one period (1983--84) in the deliberations of ANSI X3J11 (the C standardization committee) this was the canonical example of a really stupid, memory-limited computation environment....
• ewgroup wars: /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [USENET] n. The salvos of dueling `newgroup' and `rmgroup' messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a {newsgroup} should be created net-wide
  or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed....
• Wars not make one great.
• FUD wars: /fuhd worz/ n. [from {FUD}] Political posturing engaged in by hardware and software vendors ostensibly committed to standardization but actually willing to fragment the market to protect their own shares.
  The UNIX International vs. OSF conflict is but one outstanding example....