DEC Wars: n. A 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve
Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years
later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a
great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete
rewrite called Unix WARS
(http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/unixwars.html); the two are
often confused.
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