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Berzerkeley
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/b@rzerklee/ , 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. to refer to the practices or products of the BSD Unix
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hackers. See software bloat, Berkeley Quality Software. Mainstream use of
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this term in reference to the cultural and political peculiarities of UC
Berkeley as a whole has been reported from as far back as the 1960s.