from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
cthulhic
/kthool'hik/, adj.
Having the nature of a Cthulhu, the horrific tentacled green
monstrosity from H.P. Lovecraft's seminal horror fiction. Cthulhu
sends dreams that drive men mad, feeds on the flesh of screaming
victims rent limb from limb, and is served by a cult of degenerates.
Hackers think this describes large {proprietary} systems such as
traditional {mainframe}s, installations of SAP and Oracle, or rooms
full of Windows servers remarkably well, and the adjective is used
casually. Compare {Shub-Internet} and {crawling horror}.