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AIDS /aydz/ n.

Short for A* Infected Disk Syndrome (`A*' is a [411]glob pattern that
matches, but is not limited to, Apple or Amiga), this condition is
quite often the result of practicing unsafe [412]SEX. See [413]virus,
[414]worm, [415]Trojan horse, [416]virgin.
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AIDX /ayd'k*z/ n.

Derogatory term for IBM's perverted version of Unix, AIX, especially
for the AIX 3.? used in the IBM RS/6000 series (some hackers think it
is funnier just to pronounce "AIX" as "aches"). A victim of the
dreaded "hybridism" disease, this attempt to combine the two main
currents of the Unix stream ([420]BSD and [421]USG Unix) became a
[422]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 [423]HP-SUX. Also,
compare [424]Macintrash, [425]Nominal Semidestructor, [426]ScumOS,
[427]sun-stools.
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