Navigation Random Term EBCDIC /eb's*-dik/, /eb'see`dik/, or /eb'k*-dik/ [abbreviation,
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code] n. An alleged
character set used on IBM {dinosaur}s. It exists in... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION
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AIDX n. /aydkz/ n. Derogatory term for IBM's perverted version
of UNIX, AIX, especially for the AIX 3.? used in the IBM RS/6000
series. A victim of the dreaded "hybridism" disease, this
attempt to combine the two main currents of the UNIX stream
(
BSD and
USG UNIX ) became a
monstrosity to haunt
system administrators' dreams. For example, if new accounts are
created while many users are logged on, the load average jumps
quickly over 20 due to silly implementation of the user databases.
For a quite similar disease, compare
HP-SUX . Also, compare
terminak ,
Macintrash Nominal Semidestructor ,
Open DeathTrap ,
ScumOS ,
sun-stools .
