AIDS /aydz/ n.
Short for A* Infected Disk Syndrome (`A*' is a glob pattern that matches, but is not limited to,
Apple or Amiga), this condition is quite often the result of
practicing unsafe SEX. See virus, worm, Trojan horse, virgin.
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AIDX /ayd'k*z/ n.
Derogatory term for IBM's perverted version of Unix, AIX,
especially for the AIX 3.? used in the IBM RS/6000 series (some
hackers think it is funnier just to pronounce "AIX" as "aches").
A victim of the dreaded "hybridism" disease, this attempt to
combine the two main currents of the Unix stream (BSD and USG Unix)
became a monstrosity to haunt
system administrators' dreams. For example, if new accounts are
created while many users are logged on, the load average jumps
quickly over 20 due to silly implementation of the user
databases. For a quite similar disease, compare HP-SUX. Also, compare Macintrash, Nominal Semidestructor, ScumOS, sun-stools.