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SOS
(communications)
The distress signal in radiotelegraphy, consisting of the letters S, O, and S of the international Morse code.
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SOS
Morse code distress signal. [World Culture: Flexner, 359]
See: Danger
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SOS
(1)SOS
(2)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 (in particular,
TECO) 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).
SOS
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