Hi Flemming and others, This mail is not for people getting easly offended! On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 12:49:58 -0500 "Flemming Videbaek" <videbaek@sgs1.hirg.bnl.gov> wrote: > > ... also very fubar BRAT version. > > > > What does fubar mean ? Fucked Up Beyond All Repair Oh, I guess Ian already answered. Anyway ... For more on this acronym, and it's relation to "foo" and "bar", take a look at the Jargon file under "foo": * on the web: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/ * using info browser: info jargon Konstantin will now where to find it otherwise. > I have wondered since I started dealing with unix like stuff what that > meant. I have never seen that with VMS, so Ian's rendition of what > fubar means is perfect for the environment we work in. Ha ha. Anyway Kris, the Jargon file contains bunches of useful information for an old VMS'er like yourself. For example, where does grep get is name from, and so on. One entry I think fits you is (my underline): VMS: ---- DEC's proprietary operating system for its VAX minicomputer; one of the seven or so environments that loom largest in hacker folklore. Many Unix fans generously concede that VMS would probably be the hacker's favorite commercial OS if Unix didn't exist; though true, _this_makes_VMS_fans_furious_. One major hacker gripe with VMS concerns its slowness -- thus the following limerick: There once was a system called VMS Of cycles by no means abstemious. It's chock-full of hacks And runs on a VAX And makes my poor stomach all squeamious. --- The Great Quux The Jargon file is a hackers Lexicon. Fun reading ;-) Cheers, Christian ----------------------------------------------------------- Holm Christensen Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Office: (+45) 353 25 305 DK-2200 Copenhagen N Web: www.nbi.dk/~cholm Denmark Email: cholm@nbi.dk
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Jun 16 2000 - 03:41:26 EDT