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 va nilla extract! For example, "va nilla wonton soup" means ordinary wonton soup, as opposed to hot-and-sour wonton soup. Applied to hardware and software, as in "Va nilla Version 7 Unix can' t run on a va nilla 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 va nilla simply means "ordinary". For example, when hackers go to a chinese restaurant, hot-and-sour wonton soup is the canonical wonton soup to get (because that is what most of them usually order) even though it isn' t the va nilla wonton 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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