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DEC Wars n.
A 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings
and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish
terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's
failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a
3-times-longer complete rewrite called
Unix WARS;
the two are often confused.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.