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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>V7</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="../V.html" title="V"/><link rel="previous" href="../V.html" title="V"/><link rel="next" href="vadding.html" title="vadding"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">V7</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../V.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">V</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="vadding.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="V7"/><dt xmlns="" id="V7"><b>V7</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/V´sev´en/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> See <a href="Version-7.html"><i class="glossterm">Version 7</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../V.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="vadding.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">V </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> vadding</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>VAX</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="../V.html" title="V"/><link rel="previous" href="vaston.html" title="vaston"/><link rel="next" href="VAXen.html" title="VAXen"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">VAX</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="vaston.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">V</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="VAXen.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="VAX"/><dt xmlns="" id="VAX"><b>VAX</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/vaks/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [from Virtual Address eXtension] The most successful minicomputer
design in industry history, possibly excepting its immediate ancestor, the
<a href="../P/PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a>. Between its release in 1978 and its eclipse
by <a href="../K/killer-micro.html"><i class="glossterm">killer micro</i></a>s after about 1986, the VAX was
probably the hacker's favorite machine of them all, esp. after the 1982
release of 4.2 BSD Unix (see <a href="../B/BSD.html"><i class="glossterm">BSD</i></a>). Especially noted
for its large, assembler-programmer-friendly instruction set &#8212; an
asset that became a liability after the RISC revolution.</p><p>It is worth noting that the standard plural of VAX was
&#8216;vaxen&#8217; and that VAX system operators were sometimes referred
to as &#8216;vaxherds&#8217;</p></dd><dd><p> 2. A major brand of vacuum cleaner in Britain. Cited here because
its sales pitch, &#8220;<span class="quote">Nothing sucks like a VAX!</span>&#8221; became a sort of
battle-cry of RISC partisans. It is even sometimes claimed that DEC
actually entered a cross-licensing deal with the vacuum-Vax people that
allowed them to market VAX computers in the U.K. in return for not
challenging the vacuum cleaner trademark in the U.S.</p><p>A rival brand actually pioneered the slogan: its original form was
&#8220;<span class="quote">Nothing sucks like Electrolux</span>&#8221;. It has apparently become a
classic example (used in advertising textbooks) of the perils of not
knowing the local idiom. But in 1996, the press manager of Electrolux AB,
while confirming that the company used this slogan in the late 1960s, also
tells us that their marketing people were fully aware of the possible
double entendre and intended it to gain attention.</p><p>And gain attention it did &#8212; the VAX-vacuum-cleaner people
thought the slogan a sufficiently good idea to copy it. Several British
hackers report that VAX's promotions used it in 1986--1987, and we have one
report from a New Zealander that the infamous slogan surfaced there in TV
ads for the product in 1992.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="vaston.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="VAXen.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">vaston </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> VAXen</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>VAXen</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="../V.html" title="V"/><link rel="previous" href="VAX.html" title="VAX"/><link rel="next" href="vaxocentrism.html" title="vaxocentrism"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">VAXen</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="VAX.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">V</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="vaxocentrism.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="VAXen"/><dt xmlns="" id="VAXen"><b>VAXen</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/vak´sn/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from &#8216;oxen&#8217;, perhaps influenced by &#8216;vixen&#8217;]
(alt.: <span class="firstterm">vaxen</span>) The plural canonically
used among hackers for the <a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a> VAX computers.
&#8220;<span class="quote">Our installation has four PDP-10s and twenty vaxen.</span>&#8221; See
<a href="../B/boxen.html"><i class="glossterm">boxen</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="VAX.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="vaxocentrism.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">VAX </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> vaxocentrism</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>VMS</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="../V.html" title="V"/><link rel="previous" href="Visual-Fred.html" title="Visual Fred"/><link rel="next" href="voice.html" title="voice"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">VMS</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Visual-Fred.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">V</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="voice.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="VMS"/><dt xmlns="" id="VMS"><b>VMS</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/V·M·S/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> <a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a>'s proprietary operating system for its
<a href="VAX.html"><i class="glossterm">VAX</i></a> minicomputer; one of the seven or so environments that loom largest in
hacker folklore. Many Unix fans generously concede that VMS would probably
be the hacker's favorite commercial OS if Unix didn't exist; though true,
this makes VMS fans furious. One major hacker gripe with VMS concerns its
slowness &#8212; thus the following limerick:</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
   There once was a system called VMS<br/>
   Of cycles by no means abstemious.<br/>
        It's chock-full of hacks<br/>
        And runs on a VAX<br/>
   And makes my poor stomach all squeamious.<br/>
                                    &#8212; The Great Quux<br/>
</p></div><p>See also <a href="VAX.html"><i class="glossterm">VAX</i></a>, <a href="../T/TOPS-10.html"><i class="glossterm">TOPS-10</i></a>,
<a href="../T/TOPS-20.html"><i class="glossterm">TOPS-20</i></a>, <a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a>,
<a href="../R/runic.html"><i class="glossterm">runic</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Visual-Fred.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="voice.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Visual Fred </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> voice</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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opposed to <a href="../R/RL.html"><i class="glossterm">RL</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="voodoo-programming.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Vulcan-nerve-pinch.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">voodoo programming </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Vulcan nerve pinch</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Venus flytrap</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="../V.html" title="V"/><link rel="previous" href="velveeta.html" title="velveeta"/><link rel="next" href="verbage.html" title="verbage"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Venus flytrap</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="velveeta.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">V</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="verbage.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Venus-flytrap"/><dt xmlns="" id="Venus-flytrap"><b>Venus flytrap</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [after the insect-eating plant] See
<a href="../F/firewall-machine.html"><i class="glossterm">firewall machine</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="velveeta.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="verbage.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">velveeta </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> verbage</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Version 7</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="../V.html" title="V"/><link rel="previous" href="verbiage.html" title="verbiage"/><link rel="next" href="vgrep.html" title="vgrep"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Version 7</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="verbiage.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">V</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="vgrep.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Version-7"/><dt xmlns="" id="Version-7"><b>Version 7</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/vee´ se´vn/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The first widely distributed version of <a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a>,
released unsupported by Bell Labs in 1978. The term is used adjectivally
to describe Unix features and programs that date from that release, and are
thus guaranteed to be present and portable in all Unix versions (this was
the standard gauge of portability before the POSIX and IEEE 1003
standards). Note that this usage does <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> derive from
the release being the &#8220;<span class="quote">seventh version of
<a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a></span>&#8221;; research <a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a>
at Bell Labs has traditionally been numbered according to the edition of
the associated documentation. Indeed, only the widely-distributed Sixth
and Seventh Editions are widely known as V[67]; the OS that might today be
known as &#8216;V10&#8217; is instead known in full as &#8220;<span class="quote">Tenth Edition
Research Unix</span>&#8221; or just &#8220;<span class="quote">Tenth Edition</span>&#8221; for short. For
this reason, &#8220;<span class="quote">V7</span>&#8221; is often read by cognoscenti as
&#8220;<span class="quote">Seventh Edition</span>&#8221;. See <a href="../B/BSD.html"><i class="glossterm">BSD</i></a>,
<a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a>. Some old-timers impatient with
commercialization and kernel bloat still maintain that V7 was the Last True
Unix.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="verbiage.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="vgrep.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">verbiage </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> vgrep</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Visual Fred</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="../V.html" title="V"/><link rel="previous" href="visionary.html" title="visionary"/><link rel="next" href="VMS.html" title="VMS"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Visual Fred</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="visionary.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">V</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="VMS.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Visual-Fred"/><dt xmlns="" id="Visual-Fred"><b>Visual Fred</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Pejorative hackerism for VB.NET (Visual Basic for the .NET
framework). VB.NET has been marketed by Microsoft as an updated version of
the previous Visual Basic on its .NET framework, but VB.NET is really just
C# with a slightly different syntax and fewer libraries. Migrating
existing code from Visual Basic to VB.NET is generally impractical because
VB.NET has a large number of unnecessary incompatibilities with Visual
Basic. Since VB.NET has essentially nothing to do with Visual Basic, a
well-known ex-Microserf suggested that VB.NET should have a completely
different name &#8212; Visual Fred. This rapidly caught on.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="visionary.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="VMS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">visionary </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> VMS</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Commodore Amiga hackers] The keyboard combination that forces a soft-boot
or jump to ROM monitor (on machines that support such a feature). On
Amigas this is &lt;Ctrl&gt;-&lt;Left-Amiga&gt;-&lt;Right-Amiga&gt;; on PC
clones this is Ctrl-Alt-Del; on Suns, L1-A; on Macintoshes, it is
&lt;Cmd&gt;-&lt;Power switch&gt; or &lt;Cmd&gt;-&lt;Ctrl&gt;-&lt;Power&gt;!
On IRIX,
&lt;Left-Ctrl&gt;&lt;Left-Shift&gt;&lt;F12&gt;&lt;Keypad-Slash&gt;, which
kills and restarts the X server, is sometimes called a vulcan nerve pinch.
Also called <a href="../T/three-finger-salute.html"><i class="glossterm">three-finger salute</i></a> and <span class="firstterm">Vulcan death grip</span>. At shops with a lot of
Microsoft Windows machines, this is often called the <span class="firstterm">Microsoft Maneuver</span> because of the distressing
frequency with which Microsoft's unreliable software requires it. Compare
<a href="../Q/quadruple-bucky.html"><i class="glossterm">quadruple bucky</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="VR.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="vulture-capitalist.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">VR </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> vulture capitalist</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../A/ADVENT.html"><i class="glossterm">ADVENT</i></a>), used to avoid a particular
<a href="../A/admin.html"><i class="glossterm">admin</i></a>'s continual search-and-destroy sweeps for the
game] A leisure-time activity of certain hackers involving the covert
exploration of the &#8216;secret&#8217; parts of large buildings &#8212;
basements, roofs, freight elevators, maintenance crawlways, steam tunnels,
and the like. A few go so far as to learn locksmithing in order to
synthesize vadding keys. The verb is <span class="firstterm">to
vad</span> (compare <a href="../P/phreaking.html"><i class="glossterm">phreaking</i></a>; see also
<a href="../H/hack.html"><i class="glossterm">hack</i></a>, sense 9). This term dates from the late
1970s, before which such activity was simply called &#8216;hacking&#8217;;
the older usage is still prevalent at MIT.</p><p>The most extreme and dangerous form of vadding is <span class="firstterm">elevator rodeo</span>, a.k.a. <span class="firstterm">elevator surfing</span>, a sport played by wrasslin'
down a thousand-pound elevator car with a 3-foot piece of string, and then
exploiting this mastery in various stimulating ways (such as elevator
hopping, shaft exploration, rat-racing, and the ever-popular drop
experiments). Kids, don't try this at home!</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="V7.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="vanilla.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">V7 </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> vanilla</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../F/flavor.html"><i class="glossterm">flavor</i></a>, standard. When used of food, very often
does not mean that the food is flavored with vanilla extract! For example,
<span class="firstterm">vanilla wonton soup</span> means ordinary
wonton soup, as opposed to hot-and-sour wonton soup. Applied to hardware
and software, as in &#8220;<span class="quote">Vanilla Version 7 Unix can't run on a vanilla
11/34.</span>&#8221; Also used to orthogonalize chip nomenclature; for instance,
a 74V00 means what TI calls a 7400, as distinct from a 74LS00, etc. This
word differs from <a href="../C/canonical.html"><i class="glossterm">canonical</i></a> in that the latter means
&#8216;default&#8217;, whereas vanilla simply means &#8216;ordinary&#8217;.
For example, when hackers go on a <a href="../G/great-wall.html"><i class="glossterm">great-wall</i></a>,
hot-and-sour soup is the <a href="../C/canonical.html"><i class="glossterm">canonical</i></a> soup to get
(because that is what most of them usually order) even though it isn't the
vanilla (wonton) soup.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="vadding.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="vanity-domain.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">vadding </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> vanity domain</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Internet domain, particularly in the .com or .org top-level domains,
apparently created for no reason other than boosting the creator's
ego.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="vanilla.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="vannevar.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">vanilla </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> vannevar</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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concept, esp. one that fails by implicitly assuming that technologies
develop linearly, incrementally, and in isolation from one another when in
fact the learning curve tends to be highly nonlinear, revolutions are
common, and competition is the rule. The prototype was Vannevar Bush's
prediction of &#8216;electronic brains&#8217; the size of the Empire State
Building with a Niagara-Falls-equivalent cooling system for their tubes and
relays, a prediction made at a time when the semiconductor effect had
already been demonstrated. Other famous vannevars have included
magnetic-bubble memory, LISP machines, <a href="videotex.html"><i class="glossterm">videotex</i></a>, and
a paper from the late 1970s that computed a purported ultimate limit on
areal density for ICs that was in fact less than the routine densities of 5
years later.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="vanity-domain.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="vaporware.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">vanity domain </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> vaporware</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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not actually take place).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="vannevar.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="var.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">vannevar </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> var</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../A/arg.html"><i class="glossterm">arg</i></a>, <a href="../P/param.html"><i class="glossterm">param</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="vaporware.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="vaston.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">vaporware </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> vaston</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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how much work a computer is doing. A meter displaying this as a function of
time is known as a <span class="firstterm">vastometer</span>. First
used during a computing practical in December 1996.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="var.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="VAX.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">var </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> VAX</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain
assumptions that are valid (esp. under Unix) on
<a href="VAXen.html"><i class="glossterm">VAXen</i></a> but false elsewhere. Among these are:</p><div class="orderedlist"><ol type="1"><li><p>
The assumption that dereferencing a null pointer is safe because it is all
bits 0, and location 0 is readable and 0. Problem: this may instead cause an
illegal-address trap on non-VAXen, and even on VAXen under OSes other than BSD
Unix. Usually this is an implicit assumption of sloppy code (forgetting to
check the pointer before using it), rather than deliberate exploitation of a
misfeature. </p></li><li><p>
The assumption that characters are signed. </p></li><li><p>
The assumption that a pointer to any one type can freely be cast into a
pointer to any other type. A stronger form of this is the assumption that all
pointers are the same size and format, which means you don't have to worry
about getting the casts or types correct in calls. Problem: this fails on
word-oriented machines or others with multiple pointer formats.
</p></li><li><p>
The assumption that the parameters of a routine are stored in memory, on a
stack, contiguously, and in strictly ascending or descending order. Problem:
this fails on many RISC architectures. </p></li><li><p>
The assumption that pointer and integer types are the same size, and that
pointers can be stuffed into integer variables (and vice-versa) and drawn back
out without being truncated or mangled. Problem: this fails on segmented
architectures or word-oriented machines with funny pointer formats.
</p></li><li><p>
The assumption that a data type of any size may begin at any byte address in
memory (for example, that you can freely construct and dereference a pointer
to a word- or greater-sized object at an odd char address). Problem: this
fails on many (esp. RISC) architectures better optimized for
<a href="../H/HLL.html"><i class="glossterm">HLL</i></a> execution speed, and can cause an illegal address
fault or bus error. </p></li><li><p>
The (related) assumption that there is no padding at the end of types and that
in an array you can thus step right from the last byte of a previous component
to the first byte of the next one. This is not only machine- but
compiler-dependent. </p></li><li><p>
The assumption that memory address space is globally flat and that the array
reference <b class="command">foo[-1]</b> is necessarily valid.
Problem: this fails at 0, or other places on segment-addressed machines like
Intel chips (yes, segmentation is universally considered a
<a href="../B/brain-damaged.html"><i class="glossterm">brain-damaged</i></a> way to design machines (see
<a href="../M/moby.html"><i class="glossterm">moby</i></a>), but that is a separate issue).
</p></li><li><p>
The assumption that objects can be arbitrarily large with no special
considerations. Problem: this fails on segmented architectures and under
non-virtual-addressing environments. </p></li><li><p>
The assumption that the stack can be as large as memory. Problem: this fails
on segmented architectures or almost anything else without virtual addressing
and a paged stack. </p></li><li><p>
The assumption that bits and addressable units within an object are ordered in
the same way and that this order is a constant of nature. Problem: this fails
on <a href="../B/big-endian.html"><i class="glossterm">big-endian</i></a> machines. </p></li><li><p>
The assumption that it is meaningful to compare pointers to different objects
not located within the same array, or to objects of different types. Problem:
the former fails on segmented architectures, the latter on word-oriented
machines or others with multiple pointer formats. </p></li><li><p>
The assumption that an <span class="type">int</span> is 32 bits, or (nearly equivalently)
the assumption that <b class="command">sizeof(int) ==
sizeof(long)</b>. Problem: this fails on <a href="../P/PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a>s, 286-based systems and
even on 386 and 68000 systems under some compilers (and on 64-bit systems like
the Alpha, of course). </p></li><li><p>
The assumption that <b class="command">argv[]</b> is
writable. Problem: this fails in many embedded-systems C environments and even
under a few flavors of Unix. </p></li></ol></div><p>Note that a programmer can validly be accused of vaxocentrism even if
he or she has never seen a <a href="VAX.html"><i class="glossterm">VAX</i></a>. Some of these
assumptions (esp. 2--5) were valid on the <a href="../P/PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a>,
the original C machine, and became endemic years before the VAX. The terms
<span class="firstterm">vaxocentricity</span> and <span class="firstterm">all-the-world's-a-VAX syndrome</span> have been used
synonymously.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="VAXen.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="vdiff.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">VAXen </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> vdiff</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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by <a href="../E/eyeball-search.html"><i class="glossterm">eyeball search</i></a>. The term <span class="firstterm">optical diff</span> has also been reported, and is
sometimes more specifically used for the act of superimposing two nearly
identical printouts on one another and holding them up to a light to spot
differences. Though this method is poor for detecting omissions in the
&#8216;rear&#8217; file, it can also be used with printouts of graphics, a
claim few if any diff programs can make. See
<a href="../D/diff.html"><i class="glossterm">diff</i></a>.</p><p>An interesting variant of the vdiff technique usable by anyone who
has sufficient control over the parallax of their eyeballs (e.g. those who
can easily view random-dot stereograms), is to hold up two paper printouts
and go cross-eyed to superimpose them. This invokes deep, fast, built-in
image comparison wetware (the same machinery responsible for depth
perception) and differences stand out almost immediately. This technique
is good for finding edits in graphical images, or for comparing an image
with a compressed version to spot artifacts.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="vaxocentrism.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="veeblefester.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">vaxocentrism </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> veeblefester</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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prob.: originally from <i class="citetitle">Mad</i> Magazine's
&#8216;Veeblefetzer&#8217; parodies beginning in #15, 1954] Any obnoxious
person engaged in the (alleged) professions of marketing or management.
Antonym of <a href="../H/hacker.html"><i class="glossterm">hacker</i></a>. Compare
<a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>, <a href="../M/marketroid.html"><i class="glossterm">marketroid</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="vdiff.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="velveeta.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">vdiff </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> velveeta</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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name Velveeta is attached in the U.S. to a particularly nasty
processed-cheese spread.] Also knows as <a href="../E/ECP.html"><i class="glossterm">ECP</i></a>; a
message that is excessively cross-posted, as opposed to
<a href="../S/spam.html"><i class="glossterm">spam</i></a> which is too frequently posted. This term is
widely recognized but not commonly used; most people refer to both kinds of
abuse as spam. Compare <a href="../J/jello.html"><i class="glossterm">jello</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="veeblefester.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Venus-flytrap.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">veeblefester </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Venus flytrap</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="verbiage.html"><i class="glossterm">verbiage</i></a> that assimilates it to the word
&#8216;garbage&#8217;. Compare <a href="../C/content-free.html"><i class="glossterm">content-free</i></a>. More
pejorative than &#8216;verbiage&#8217;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Venus-flytrap.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="verbiage.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Venus flytrap </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> verbiage</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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to <a href="../D/documentation.html"><i class="glossterm">documentation</i></a>. This term borrows the
connotations of mainstream &#8216;verbiage&#8217; to suggest that the
documentation is of marginal utility and that the motives behind its
production have little to do with the ostensible subject.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="verbage.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Version-7.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">verbage </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Version 7</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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rather than digitally (also called an <span class="firstterm">optical
grep</span>). See <a href="../G/grep.html"><i class="glossterm">grep</i></a>; compare
<a href="vdiff.html"><i class="glossterm">vdiff</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Version-7.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="vi.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Version 7 </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> vi</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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together by Bill Joy for an early <a href="../B/BSD.html"><i class="glossterm">BSD</i></a> release.
Became the <span class="i">de facto</span> standard Unix editor and
a nearly undisputed hacker favorite outside of MIT until the rise of
<a href="../E/EMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">EMACS</i></a> after about 1984. Tends to frustrate new
users no end, as it will neither take commands while expecting input text
nor vice versa, and the default setup on older versions provides no
indication of which mode the editor is in (years ago, a correspondent
reported that he has often heard the editor's name pronounced <span class="pronunciation">/vi:l/</span>; there is now a vi clone named
<span class="firstterm">vile</span>). Nevertheless vi (and variants
such as vim and elvis) is still widely used (about half the respondents in
a 1991 Usenet poll preferred it), and even EMACS fans often resort to it as
a mail editor and for small editing jobs (mainly because it starts up
faster than the bulkier versions of EMACS). See <a href="../H/holy-wars.html"><i class="glossterm">holy
wars</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="vgrep.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="video-toaster.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">vgrep </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> video toaster</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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video effects hardware from NewTek &#8212; long a popular platform at
special-effects and video production houses. More generally, any computer
system designed specifically for video production and manipulation.
Compare <a href="../W/web-toaster.html"><i class="glossterm">web toaster</i></a> and see
<a href="../T/toaster.html"><i class="glossterm">toaster</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="vi.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="videotex.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">vi </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> videotex</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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read the weather on their television screens instead of having somebody
read it to them for free while they brush their teeth. The idea bombed
everywhere it wasn't government-subsidized, because by the time videotex
was practical the installed base of personal computers could hook up to
timesharing services and do the things for which videotex might have been
worthwhile better and cheaper. Videotex planners badly overestimated both
the appeal of getting information from a computer and the cost of local
intelligence at the user's end. Like the
<a href="../G/gorilla-arm.html"><i class="glossterm">gorilla arm</i></a> effect, this has been a cautionary tale to hackers ever
since. See also <a href="vannevar.html"><i class="glossterm">vannevar</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="video-toaster.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="virgin.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">video toaster </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> virgin</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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virgin system and see if it crashes again.</span>&#8221; (Esp.: useful after
contracting a <a href="virus.html"><i class="glossterm">virus</i></a> through
<a href="../S/SEX.html"><i class="glossterm">SEX</i></a>.) Also, by extension, buffers and the like
within a program that have not yet been used.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="videotex.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="virtual.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">videotex </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> virtual</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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day before an extended weekend, if that day is not a &#8216;real&#8217;
Friday. For example, the U.S. holiday Thanksgiving is always on a
Thursday. The next day is often also a holiday or taken as an extra day
off, in which case Wednesday of that week is a virtual Friday (and Thursday
is a virtual Saturday, as is Friday). There are also <span class="firstterm">virtual Mondays</span> that are actually Tuesdays,
after the three-day weekends associated with many national holidays in the
U.S.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="virtual-beer.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="virtual-reality.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">virtual beer </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> virtual reality</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>virtual beer</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="../V.html" title="V"/><link rel="previous" href="virtual.html" title="virtual"/><link rel="next" href="virtual-Friday.html" title="virtual Friday"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">virtual beer</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="virtual.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">V</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="virtual-Friday.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="virtual-beer"/><dt xmlns="" id="virtual-beer"><b>virtual beer</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Praise or thanks. Used universally in the Linux
community. Originally this term signified cash, after a famous incident in
which some Britishers who wanted to buy Linus a beer sent him money to
Finland to do so.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="virtual.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="virtual-Friday.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">virtual </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> virtual Friday</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>virtual reality</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="../V.html" title="V"/><link rel="previous" href="virtual-Friday.html" title="virtual Friday"/><link rel="next" href="virtual-shredder.html" title="virtual shredder"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">virtual reality</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="virtual-Friday.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">V</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="virtual-shredder.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="virtual-reality"/><dt xmlns="" id="virtual-reality"><b>virtual reality</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Computer simulations that use 3-D graphics and devices such as
the Dataglove to allow the user to interact with the simulation. See
<a href="../C/cyberspace.html"><i class="glossterm">cyberspace</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A form of network interaction incorporating aspects of
role-playing games, interactive theater, improvisational comedy, and
&#8216;true confessions&#8217; magazines. In a virtual reality forum (such
as Usenet's <tt class="systemitem">alt.callahans</tt>
newsgroup or the <a href="../M/MUD.html"><i class="glossterm">MUD</i></a> experiments on Internet),
interaction between the participants is written like a shared novel
complete with scenery, <span class="firstterm">foreground
characters</span> that may be personae utterly unlike the people who
write them, and common <span class="firstterm">background
characters</span> manipulable by all parties. The one iron law is that
you may not write irreversible changes to a character without the consent
of the person who &#8216;owns&#8217; it. Otherwise anything goes. See
<a href="../B/bamf.html"><i class="glossterm">bamf</i></a>, <a href="../C/cyberspace.html"><i class="glossterm">cyberspace</i></a>,
<a href="../T/teledildonics.html"><i class="glossterm">teledildonics</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="virtual-Friday.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="virtual-shredder.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">virtual Friday </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> virtual shredder</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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shops using IBM's VM/CMS operating system. VM/CMS officially supports a
whole bestiary of virtual card readers, virtual printers, and other phantom
devices; these are used to supply some of the same capabilities Unix gets
from pipes and I/O redirection.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="virtual-reality.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="virus.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">virtual reality </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> virus</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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memory</span>, prob.: from the term <span class="firstterm">virtual
image</span> in optics] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. Common alternative to <a href="../L/logical.html"><i class="glossterm">logical</i></a>; often used
to refer to the artificial objects (like addressable virtual memory larger
than physical memory) simulated by a computer system as a convenient way to
manage access to shared resources. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Simulated; performing the functions of something that isn't
really there. An imaginative child's doll may be a virtual playmate.
Oppose <a href="../R/real.html"><i class="glossterm">real</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="virgin.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="virtual-beer.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">virgin </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> virtual beer</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>virus</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="../V.html" title="V"/><link rel="previous" href="virtual-shredder.html" title="virtual shredder"/><link rel="next" href="visionary.html" title="visionary"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">virus</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="virtual-shredder.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">V</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="visionary.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="virus"/><dt xmlns="" id="virus"><b>virus</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the obvious analogy with biological viruses, via SF] A cracker
program that searches out other programs and &#8216;infects&#8217; them by
embedding a copy of itself in them, so that they become <a href="../T/Trojan-horse.html"><i class="glossterm">Trojan
horse</i></a>s. When these programs are executed, the embedded virus
is executed too, thus propagating the &#8216;infection&#8217;. This
normally happens invisibly to the user. Unlike a
<a href="../W/worm.html"><i class="glossterm">worm</i></a>, a virus cannot infect other computers without
assistance. It is propagated by vectors such as humans trading programs
with their friends (see <a href="../S/SEX.html"><i class="glossterm">SEX</i></a>). The virus may do
nothing but propagate itself and then allow the program to run normally.
Usually, however, after propagating silently for a while, it starts doing
things like writing cute messages on the terminal or playing strange tricks
with the display (some viruses include nice <a href="../D/display-hack.html"><i class="glossterm">display
hack</i></a>s). Many nasty viruses, written by particularly perversely
minded <a href="../C/cracker.html"><i class="glossterm">cracker</i></a>s, do irreversible damage, like nuking
all the user's files.</p><p>In the 1990s, viruses became a serious problem, especially among
Windows users; the lack of security on these machines enables viruses to
spread easily, even infecting the operating system (Unix machines, by
contrast, are immune to such attacks). The production of special
anti-virus software has become an industry, and a number of exaggerated
media reports have caused outbreaks of near hysteria among users; many
<a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>s tend to blame <span class="emphasis"><em>everything</em></span>
that doesn't work as they had expected on virus attacks. Accordingly, this
sense of <span class="firstterm">virus</span> has passed not only
into techspeak but into also popular usage (where it is often incorrectly
used to denote a <a href="../W/worm.html"><i class="glossterm">worm</i></a> or even a <a href="../T/Trojan-horse.html"><i class="glossterm">Trojan
horse</i></a>). See <a href="../P/phage.html"><i class="glossterm">phage</i></a>; compare
<a href="../B/back-door.html"><i class="glossterm">back door</i></a>; see also <a href="../U/Unix-conspiracy.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix
conspiracy</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="virtual-shredder.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="visionary.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">virtual shredder </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> visionary</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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researcher working on the problem of getting computers to &#8216;see&#8217;
things using TV cameras. (There isn't any problem in sending information
from a TV camera to a computer. The problem is, how can the computer be
programmed to make use of the camera information? See
<a href="../S/SMOP.html"><i class="glossterm">SMOP</i></a>, <a href="../A/AI-complete.html"><i class="glossterm">AI-complete</i></a>.) </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [IBM] One who reads the outside literature. At IBM, apparently,
such a penchant is viewed with awe and wonder.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="virus.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Visual-Fred.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">virus </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Visual Fred</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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a digital network. Usenet <a href="../S/sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig block</i></a>s not uncommonly
include the sender's phone next to a &#8220;<span class="quote">Voice:</span>&#8221; or
&#8220;<span class="quote">Voice-Net:</span>&#8221; header; common variants of this are
&#8220;<span class="quote">Voicenet</span>&#8221; and &#8220;<span class="quote">V-Net</span>&#8221;. Compare
<a href="../P/paper-net.html"><i class="glossterm">paper-net</i></a>, <a href="../S/snail-mail.html"><i class="glossterm">snail-mail</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="voice.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="voodoo-programming.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">voice </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> voodoo programming</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../T/talk-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">talk mode</i></a>. &#8220;<span class="quote">I'm busy now; I'll voice you
later.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="VMS.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="voice-net.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">VMS </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> voice-net</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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or <a href="../H/hairy.html"><i class="glossterm">hairy</i></a> system, feature, or algorithm that one does
not truly understand. The implication is that the technique may not work,
and if it doesn't, one will never know why. Almost synonymous with
<a href="../B/black-magic.html"><i class="glossterm">black magic</i></a>, except that black magic typically isn't
documented and <span class="emphasis"><em>nobody</em></span> understands it. Compare
<a href="../M/magic.html"><i class="glossterm">magic</i></a>, <a href="../D/deep-magic.html"><i class="glossterm">deep magic</i></a>,
<a href="../H/heavy-wizardry.html"><i class="glossterm">heavy wizardry</i></a>, <a href="../R/rain-dance.html"><i class="glossterm">rain dance</i></a>,
<a href="../C/cargo-cult-programming.html"><i class="glossterm">cargo cult programming</i></a>,
<a href="../W/wave-a-dead-chicken.html"><i class="glossterm">wave a dead chicken</i></a>, <a href="../S/SCSI-voodoo.html"><i class="glossterm">SCSI voodoo</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try
anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling
everything.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="voice-net.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="VR.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">voice-net </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> VR</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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from the common practice of pushing contracts that deprive inventors of
control over their own innovations and most of the money they ought to have
made from them.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Vulcan-nerve-pinch.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="../W.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Vulcan nerve pinch </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> W</td></tr></table></div></body></html>