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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>wabbit</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="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="w00t.html" title="w00t"/><link rel="next" href="WAITS.html" title="WAITS"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">wabbit</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="w00t.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="WAITS.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="wabbit"/><dt xmlns="" id="wabbit"><b>wabbit</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/wab´it/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's immortal line “<span class="quote">You
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wascawwy wabbit!</span>”] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. A legendary early hack reported on a System/360 at RPI and
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elsewhere around 1978; this may have descended (if only by inspiration)
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from a hack called RABBITS reported from 1969 on a Burroughs 5500 at the
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University of Washington Computer Center. The program would make two
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copies of itself every time it was run, eventually crashing the
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system.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. By extension, any hack that includes infinite self-replication
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but is not a <a href="../V/virus.html"><i class="glossterm">virus</i></a> or <a href="worm.html"><i class="glossterm">worm</i></a>.
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See <a href="../F/fork-bomb.html"><i class="glossterm">fork bomb</i></a> and <a href="../R/rabbit-job.html"><i class="glossterm">rabbit job</i></a>,
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see also <a href="../C/cookie-monster.html"><i class="glossterm">cookie monster</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="w00t.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="WAITS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">w00t </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> WAITS</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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