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.
Compare AIDX, buglix. See also Nominal Semidestructor, Telerat, ScumOS, sun-stools, Slowlaris.
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