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clone
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. 1. An exact duplicate: Our product is a clone of their product. Implies a
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legal reimplementation from documentation or by reverse-engineering. Also
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connotes lower price. 2. A shoddy, spurious copy: Their product is a clone
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of our product. 3. A blatant ripoff, most likely violating copyright,
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patent, or trade secret protections: Your product is a clone of my product.
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This use implies legal action is pending. 4. [obs] PC clone: a
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PC-BUS/ISA/EISA/PCI-compatible 80x86-based microcomputer (this use is
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sometimes spelled klone or PClone ). These invariably have much more bang
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for the buck than the IBM archetypes they resemble. This term fell out of
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use in the 1990s; the class of machines it describes are now simply PCs or
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Intel machines. 5. [obs.
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