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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>app</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="AOL-.html" title="AOL!"/><link rel="next" href="Archimedes.html" title="Archimedes"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">app</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="AOL-.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="Archimedes.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="app"/><dt xmlns="" id="app"><b>app</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/ap/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Short for ‘application program’, as opposed to a systems
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program. Apps are what systems vendors are forever chasing developers to
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create for their environments so they can sell more boxes. Hackers tend
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not to think of the things they themselves run as apps; thus, in hacker
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parlance the term excludes compilers, program editors, games, and messaging
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systems, though a user would consider all those to be apps. (Broadly, an
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app is often a self-contained environment for performing some well-defined
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task such as ‘word processing’; hackers tend to prefer more
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general-purpose tools.) See <a href="../K/killer-app.html"><i class="glossterm">killer app</i></a>; oppose
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<a href="../T/tool.html"><i class="glossterm">tool</i></a>, <a href="../O/operating-system.html"><i class="glossterm">operating
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system</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="AOL-.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="Archimedes.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">AOL!<21></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>Archimedes</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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