hp-sux

2 definitions found

hp-sux - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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)
  

hp-sux - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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. See
     sun-stools, Slowlaris.