[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.
Darn those pesky wabbits! Always trying to get into your crops. This time they're after your carrots. Grab some rotten eggs, Billie Sue, and try to scare them out of your carrot patch. You've got plenty of rotten eggs, so start throwing!
As the game opens, you, farmer Billie Sue are situated at the bottom of the screen, looking up at your carrot patch. You have planted ten rows of carrots all together. Those pesky Wabbits have holes dug on each side of each row and will dart out of their holes to pluck, the closest carrot to them. If you manage to hit a Wabbit with an egg, you will score points, and prevent them from gathering up their carrots. The game ends when the rabbits have managed to horde one hundred carrots. You will deduct twenty-five carrots from their score every time you score one hundred points yourself.
You can select from four different one and two player games; you can choose to fight one, two, or three Wabbits at a time. There is also a children's game that plays slower than the regular version.
Selecting the difficulty switch to the 'A' position will slow Billie Sue down.
A wabbit is a type of self-replicatingcomputer program. Unlike viruses, wabbits do not infect host programs or documents. Unlike worms, wabbits do not use network capabilities of computers to spread. Instead, a wabbit repeatedly replicates itself on a local computer. Wabbits can be programmed to have (malicious) side effects. [1] An example of a wabbit is a fork bomb.
The name "wabbit" is probably derived from Elmer Fudd's pronunciation of 'rabbit' in the Warner Brothers cartoons that featured him and Bugs Bunny. Like rabbits, these programs have an ability to multiply quickly.
