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SOS /S-O-S/

n.,obs. An infamously [losing] text editor. Once, back in the 1960s, when a text editor was needed for the PDP-6, a hacker crufted together a [quick-and-dirty] `stopgap editor' to be used until a better one was written. Unfortunately, the old one was never really discarded when new ones came along. SOS is a descendant (`Son of Stopgap') of that editor, and many PDP-10 users gained the dubious pleasure of its acquaintance. Since then other programs similar in style to SOS have been written, notably the early font editor BILOS /bye'lohs/, the Brother-In-Law Of Stopgap (the alternate expansion `Bastard Issue, Loins of Stopgap' has been proposed).

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