verbage /ver'b*j/ n.
A deliberate misspelling and mispronunciation of verbiage that assimilates it to the word
`garbage'. Compare content-free. More pejorative than
`verbiage'.
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verbiage n.
When the context involves a software or hardware system, this
refers to documentation. This
term borrows the connotations of mainstream `verbiage' to suggest
that the documentation is of marginal utility and that the
motives behind its production have little to do with the
ostensible subject.
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Version 7 alt. V7 /vee' se'vn/ n.
The first widely distributed version of Unix, released unsupported by Bell Labs in 1978.
The term is used adjectivally to describe Unix features and
programs that date from that release, and are thus guaranteed to
be present and portable in all Unix versions (this was the
standard gauge of portability before the POSIX and IEEE 1003
standards). Note that this usage does not derive from
the release being the "seventh version of Unix"; research Unix
at Bell Labs has traditionally been numbered according to the
edition of the associated documentation. Indeed, only the
widely-distributed Sixth and Seventh Editions are widely known as
V[67]; the OS that might today be known as `V10' is instead known
in full as "Tenth Edition Research Unix" or just "Tenth Edition"
for short. For this reason, "V7" is often read by cognoscenti as
"Seventh Edition". See BSD, USG Unix, Unix.
Some old-timers impatient with commercialization and kernel bloat
still maintain that V7 was the Last True Unix.