HP-SUX

abuse, operating system /H-P suhks/ An unflattering

hackerism for HP-UX which features some truly unique

bogosities in the file system internals and elsewhere (these

occasionally create portability problems). HP-UX is often

referred to as "hockey-pux" inside HP, and one respondent

claims that the proper pronunciation is /H-P ukkkhhhh/ as

though one were about to spit. Another such alternate

spelling and pronunciation is "H-PUX" /H-puhks/. 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.

Compare AIDX, buglix, Telerat, Open DeathTrap,

ScumOS, sun-stools.

[Jargon File]

(1997-05-12)