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BUGLIX

Specialty Definition: BUGLIX

DomainDefinition

Computing

Buglix /buhg'liks/ n. [uncommon] Pejorative term referring to DEC's ULTRIX operating system in its earlier _severely_ buggy versions. Still used to describe ULTRIX, but without nearly so much venom. Compare AIDX, HP-SUX, Nominal Semidestructor, Telerat, sun-stools. Source: Jargon File.

Slang

Noun. Source: It comes from the words "bug" and "ULTRIX" put together. Definition: A depreciatory description of DEC's ULTRIX. Context: Used as an alternative name for ULTRIX. Social Source: Northwest American computer hacker. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: BUGLIX

Specialty definitions using "BUGLIX": HP-SUXInternet ExploderNominal Semidestructor. (references)

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Anagrams: BUGLIX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-g-i-l-u-x"

-2 letters: glib, iglu.

-3 letters: big, bug, gib, gul, lib, lug, lux.

-4 letters: bi, li, xi, xu.

 Words containing the letters "b-g-i-l-u-x"
 

+4 letters: boxhauling.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BUGLIX


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 55 47 4C 49 58

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    ..-    --.    .-..    ..    -..-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01010101 01000111 01001100 01001001 01011000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#85 &#71 &#76 &#73 &#88

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0055 0047 004C 0049 0058

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

365541464358

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