Berkeley Quality Software

abuse (Often abbreviated "BQS") Term used in a pejorative

sense to refer to software that was apparently created by

rather spaced-out hackers late at night to solve some unique

problem. It usually has nonexistent, incomplete, or incorrect

documentation, has been tested on at least two examples, and

core dumps when anyone else attempts to use it. This term was

frequently applied to early versions of the "dbx(1)" debugger.

See also Berzerkeley.

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(1996-01-15)