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Comment by hawflakes 13 hours ago

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It’s in the Jargon file. Your comment made me remember this bit:

Hackers at HP/Apollo (the former Apollo Computers which was swallowed by HP in 1989) have been heard to complain that Mr. Packard should have pushed to have his name first, if for no other reason than the greater eloquence of the resulting acronym.

https://zvon.org/comp/r/ref-Jargon_file.html#Terms~HP-SUX