Berzerkeley

humour /b*r-zer'klee/ (From "berserk", via the name of a

now-deceased record label) A humorous distortion of "Berkeley"

used especially to refer to the practices or products of the

BSD Unix hackers.

See software bloat, Missed'em-five, Berkeley QualitySoftware.

Mainstream use of this term in reference to the cultural and

political peculiarities of UC Berkeley as a whole has been

reported from as far back as the 1960s.

[Jargon File]

(1996-06-01)