previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path
separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an
option character in 1.0."

:bug-for-bug compatible: /n./ Same as {bug-compatible}, with
the additional implication that much tedious effort went into
ensuring that each (known) bug was replicated.

:bug-of-the-month club: /n./ [from "book-of-the-month
club", a time-honored mail-order-marketing technique in the U.S.]
A mythical club which users of `sendmail(1)' (the UNIX mail
daemon) belong to; this was coined on the Usenet newsgroup
comp.security.unix at a time when sendmail security holes, which
allowed outside {cracker}s access to the system, were being
uncovered at an alarming rate, forcing sysadmins to update very
often. Also, more completely, `fatal security bug-of-the-month
club'.

:buglix: /buhg'liks/ /n./ 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}.

:bulletproof: /adj./ Used of an algorithm or implementation
considered extremely {robust}; lossage-resistant; capable of
correctly recovering from any imaginable exception condition -- a
rare and valued quality. Syn. {armor-plated}.

:bum: 1. /vt./ To make highly efficient, either in time or