Wabbit

2 definitions found

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

  wabbit /wab'it/ n. [almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's immortal line
     "You wascawwy wabbit!"] 1. A legendary early hack reported on a
     System/360 at RPI and elsewhere around 1978; this may have descended (if
     only by inspiration) from a hack called RABBITS reported from 1969 on a
     Burroughs 5500 at the University of Washington Computer Center. The
     program would make two copies of itself every time it was run,


     eventually crashing the system. 2. By extension, any hack that includes
     infinite self-replication but is not a {virus} or {worm}. See {fork
     bomb} and {rabbit job}, see also {cookie monster}.
  
  

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

  wabbit
       
          /wab'it/ [almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's immortal line
          "You wascawwy wabbit!"]  1. A legendary early hack reported on
          a System/360 at RPI and elsewhere around 1978; this may have
          descended (if only by inspiration) from hack called RABBITS
          reported from 1969 on a Burroughs 55000 at the University of
          Washington Computer Center.  The program would make two copies
          of itself every time it was run, eventually crashing the
          system.
       
          2. By extension, any hack that includes infinite
          self-replication but is not a {virus} or {worm}.  See {fork
          bomb} and {rabbit job}, see also {cookie monster}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]