HP-SUX

2 definitions found

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  HP-SUX /H-P suhks/ n. 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 `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}. See also {Nominal
     Semidestructor}, {Telerat}, {ScumOS}, {sun-stools}, {Slowlaris}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  HP-SUX
       
           /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)