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}.
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