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vanilla
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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adj. [from the default flavor of ice cream in the U.S.] Ordinary flavor ,
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standard. When used of food, very often does not mean that the food is
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flavored with vanilla extract! For example, vanilla wonton soup means
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ordinary wonton soup, as opposed to hot-and-sour wonton soup. Applied to
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hardware and software, as in Vanilla Version 7 Unix can't run on a vanilla
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11/34. Also used to orthogonalize chip nomenclature; for instance, a 74V00
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means what TI calls a 7400, as distinct from a 74LS00, etc. This word
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differs from canonical in that the latter means default , whereas vanilla
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simply means ordinary. For example, when hackers go on a great-wall ,
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hot-and-sour soup is the canonical soup to get (because that is what most of
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them usually order) even though it isn't the vanilla (wonton) soup.
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