wabbit
/wab'it/ [almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's immortal line "You wascawwy
wabbit!"] 1. A legendary early hack reported on a System/360 at RPI and
elsewhere around 1978; this may have descended (if only by inspiration) from
hack called RABBITS reported from 1969 on a Burroughs 55000 at the University of
Washington Computer Center. The program would make two copies of itself every
time it was run, eventually crashing the system.
2. By extension, any hack that includes infinite self-replication but is not a
virus or worm. See fork bomb and rabbit job, see also cookie monster.
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