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HP-SUX
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/HP suhks/ , n. Unflattering hackerism for HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard's Unix
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port, which features some truly unique bogosities in the filesystem
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internals and elsewhere (these occasionally create portability problems).
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HP-UX is often referred to as hockey-pux inside HP, and one respondent
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claims that the proper pronunciation is /HP ukkkhhhh/ as though one were
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about to spit. Another such alternate spelling and pronunciation is H-PUX
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/H-puhks/. Hackers at HP/Apollo (the former Apollo Computers which was
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swallowed by HP in 1989) have been heard to complain that Mr. Packard should
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have pushed to have his name first, if for no other reason than the greater
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eloquence of the resulting acronym. See sun-stools , Slowlaris.
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