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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>HP-SUX</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="house-wizard.html" title="house wizard"/><link rel="next" href="HTH.html" title="HTH"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">HP-SUX</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="house-wizard.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="HTH.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="HP-SUX"/><dt xmlns="" id="HP-SUX"><b>HP-SUX</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/H·P suhks/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Unflattering hackerism for HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard's Unix port, which
features some truly unique bogosities in the filesystem internals and
elsewhere (these occasionally create portability problems). HP-UX is often
referred to as &#8216;hockey-pux&#8217; inside HP, and one respondent
claims that the proper pronunciation is <span class="pronunciation">/H·P
ukkkhhhh/</span> as though one were about to spit. Another such
alternate spelling and pronunciation is &#8220;<span class="quote">H-PUX</span>&#8221; <span class="pronunciation">/H-puhks/</span>. Hackers at HP/Apollo (the
former Apollo Computers which was swallowed by HP in 1989) have been heard
to complain that Mr. Packard should have pushed to have his name first, if
for no other reason than the greater eloquence of the resulting acronym.
See <a href="../S/sun-stools.html"><i class="glossterm">sun-stools</i></a>,
<a href="../S/Slowlaris.html"><i class="glossterm">Slowlaris</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="house-wizard.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="HTH.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">house wizard </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> HTH</td></tr></table></div></body></html>