from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
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. See
{sun-stools}, {Slowlaris}.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
HP-SUX
<abuse, operating system> /H-P suhks/ An unflattering
hackerism for {HP-UX} which features some truly unique
bogosities in the {file system} 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}, {Telerat}, {Open DeathTrap},
{ScumOS}, {sun-stools}.
[{Jargon File}]
(1997-05-12)