SOS
1. Scheme Object System.
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).
3. The PDP-10 instruction to decrease a value. Oppose AOS.
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