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.
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