[1] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

brain-damaged adj. 1. common; generalization of `honeywell brain
   damage' hbd, a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter
   cretinisms in honeywell multics adj. obviously wrong; cretinous;
   demented. there is an implication that the person responsible must
   have suffered brain damage, because he should have known better. calling
   something brain-damaged is really bad; it also implies it is unusable,
   and that its failure to work is due to poor design rather than some
   accident. "only six monocase characters per file name? now _that's_
   brain-damaged" 2. esp. in the mac world may refer to free
   demonstration software that has been deliberately crippled in some way
   so as not to compete with the product it is intended to sell. syn.
   crippleware.


see also:
multics cretinous demented crippleware 

[2] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

brain-damaged
     
        1. generalisation of "honeywell brain damage" hbd, a
        theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter
        cretinisms in honeywell multics obviously wrong; cretinous;
        demented.  there is an implication that the person
        responsible must have suffered brain damage, because he should
        have known better.  calling something brain-damaged is really
        bad; it also implies it is unusable, and that its failure to
        work is due to poor design rather than some accident.  "only
        six monocase characters per file name?  now that's
        brain-damaged"
     
        2. especially in the mac world may refer to free
        demonstration software that has been deliberately crippled in
        some way so as not to compete with the commercial product it
        is intended to sell.  synonym crippleware.
     
        jargon file
     
     
see also:
multics demented crippleware jargon file 

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