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• 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"....
• big-endian: [From Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" via the famous paper "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace" by Danny Cohen, USC/ISI IEN 137, dated April 1, 1980] adj.
  1. Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given multi-byte numeric representation, the most significant byte has the lowest address (the word is stored `big-end-first')....
• big-endian adj. [common; From Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" via the famous paper "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace" by Danny Cohen, USC/ISI IEN 137, dated April 1, 1980] 1.
  Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given multi-byte numeric representation, the most significant byte has the lowest address (the word is stored `big-end-first')....
• eal operating system: n. The sort the speaker is used to.
  People from the BSDophilic academic community are likely to issue comments like "System V?...
• 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....
• eligious issues: n. Questions which seemingly cannot be raised without touching off {holy wars}
  uch as "What is the best operating system (or editor, language, architecture, shell, mail reader, news reader)?...
• vi: /V-I/, *not* /vi:/ and *never* /siks/ [from `Visual Interface'] n.
  A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early {BSD} release....
• 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 about Unix standards was one outstanding example...
• ed n. "ed is the standard text editor." Line taken from original the Unix manual page on ed
  an ancient line-oriented editor that is by now used only by a few Real Programmers, and even the original line is sometimes uttered near the beginning of an emacs vs....