SOS: /S-O-S/ n.,obs. An infamously losing text editor. Once,
back in the 1960s, when a text editor was needed for the PDP-6, a
hacker crufted together a quick-and-dirty `stopgap editor' to be
used until a better one was written. Unfortunately, the old one was
never really discarded when new ones came along. SOS is a
descendant (`Son of Stopgap') of that editor, and many PDP-10 users
gained the dubious pleasure of its acquaintance. Since then other
programs similar in style to SOS have been written, notably the
early font editor BILOS /bye'lohs/, the Brother-In-Law Of Stopgap
(the alternate expansion `Bastard Issue, Loins of Stopgap' has been
proposed).
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