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

wabbit /wab'it/ n. 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 a hack called rabbits reported from 1969 on a
   burroughs 5500 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.


see also:
virus worm fork bomb rabbit job cookie monster 

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

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.
     
        jargon file
     
     
see also:
virus worm fork bomb rabbit job cookie monster jargon file 

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