wabbit

/wab'it/ [almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's immortal line

"You wascawwy wabbit!"] 1. A legendary early hack reported on

a System/360 at RPI and elsewhere around 1978; this may have

descended (if only by inspiration) from hack called RABBITS

reported from 1969 on a Burroughs 55000 at the University of

Washington Computer Center. The program would make two copies

of itself every time it was run, eventually crashing the

system.

2. By extension, any hack that includes infinite

self-replication but is not a virus or worm. See forkbomb and rabbit job, see also cookie monster.

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