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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>DEC Wars</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="DEC.html" title="DEC"/><link rel="next" href="decay.html" title="decay"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">DEC Wars</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="DEC.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="decay.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="DEC-Wars"/><dt xmlns="" id="DEC-Wars"><b>DEC Wars</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A 1983 <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a> posting by Alan Hastings and
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Steve Tarr spoofing the <i class="citetitle">Star Wars</i> movies in hackish
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terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure
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to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer
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complete rewrite called <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unixwars.html" target="_top"> Unix WARS</a>;
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the two are often confused.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="DEC.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="decay.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">DEC </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> decay</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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