dec wars

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

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;
   the two are often confused.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

DEC Wars

   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"; the two
   are often confused.

   [{Jargon File}]

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