Re: HUMOR: OS insults

[Alexander Shinn <ashinn1@REMOVEME.cs.umbc.edu>]

On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Daniel J. Pearson wrote:

} I`ve always been amused by the derogatory names that many OS`s seem to get
} stuck with:
} 
} Solaris - Slowlaris
} HP-UX - HP-sUX
} Windows - Windoze, Winblows, far too many more to name.
} (Windows) NT - Not There, Nice Try, Not Tough, etc.
} MS-DOS - Messy-DOS, MS-DOG
} 
} Anyone hear of any good ones for MacOS, Irix, Linux, Digital Unix, BSD,
} AIX or VMS?  I know there just has to be some good ones for MacOS, but
} for some reason I can`t think of any. 

I've heard Macintoy and Macintrash for Macs.  Also you can just pronounce
AIX as "aches."  Haven't heard any for Linux... seems like most people who
think up such names like Linux too much.  There has to be some for VMS and
Irix though.

Of course, not having derogatory terms is a good reason to invent some :)
I propose "Beasty" and "Analog Multics".

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