vanilla
1. (Default flavour of ice cream in the US) Ordinary flavour, standard. When used of food, very often does not mean that the food is flavoured with vanilla extract! For example, "vanilla wo NTon soup" means ordinary wo NTon soup, as opposed to hot-and-sour wo NTon soup. Applied to hardware and software, as in "Vanilla Version 7 Unix can' t run on a vanilla PDP 11/34." Also used to orthogonalise chip nomenclature for instance, a 74V00 means what TI calls a 7400, as distinct from a 74LS00, etc. This word differs from canonical in that the latter means "default", whereas vanilla simply means "ordinary". For example, when hackers go to a chinese restaura NT, hot-and-sour wo NTon soup is the canonical wo NTon soup to get (because that is what most of them usually order) even though it isn' t the vanilla wo NTon soup. [ Jargon File] (1994-11-04) 2. Snobol4 by Catspaw, Inc. for MS-DOS. . (1992-02-05) In addition suitable coNTeNTs: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ al ] [ am ] [ an ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ arg ] [ as ] [ at ] [ au ] [ av ] [ aw ] [ b ] [ be ] [ bo ] [ by ] [ C ] [ ca ] [ canonical ] [ ch ] [ chip ] [ ck ] [ cl ] [ cr ] [ D ] [ de ] [ diff ] [ do ] [ DOS ] [ DP ] [ du ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ edu ] [ er ] [ es ] [ et ] [ fault ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ flavour ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ fr ] [ ge ] [ gh ] [ h ] [ hack ] [ hacker ] [ hardware ] [ hat ] [ hog ] [ hr ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ iff ] [ il ] [ in ] [ inc ] [ instance ] [ io ] [ is ] [ it ] [ J ] [ Jargon File ] [ ke ] [ la ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ ls ] [ lt ] [ ly ] [ M ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ MS-DOS ] [ na ] [ nc ] [ ne ] [ ni ] [ no ] [ ns ] [ O ] [ om ] [ oNTo ] [ op ] [ orthogonal ] [ OS ] [ pa ] [ PD ] [ PDP ] [ ph ] [ pl ] [ ply ] [ query ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ ro ] [ ru ] [ run ] [ S ] [ se ] [ si ] [ sn ] [ so ] [ software ] [ st ] [ standard ] [ su ] [ T ] [ tc ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tp ] [ tr ] [ tt ] [ tw ] [ ua ] [ ug ] [ up ] [ US ] [ us ] [ V ] [ va ] [ ve ] [ Version 7 ] [ word ]
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