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<jargon> Obscure, consisting of runes.
VMS fans sometimes refer to Unix as "RUnix". Unix fans return the compliment by expanding VMS to "Very Messy Syntax" or "Vachement Mauvais Systeme" (French; literally "Cowlike Bad System", idiomatically "Bitchy Bad System").
(1996-09-17)
Nearby terms: RUNCIBLE « run commands « runes « runic » run-length encoding » Run Length Limited » run time
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