yaun

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/yawn/ Yet Another Unix Nerd.

Reported from the San Diego Computer Society (predominantly a microcomputer users' group) as a good-natured punning insult aimed at Unix zealots. [Jargon File]

(1994-11-11)

The Jargon File

[Acronym for ‘Yet Another Unix Nerd’] Reported from the San Diego Computer Society (predominantly a microcomputer users' group) as a good-natured punning insult aimed at Unix zealots.