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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>vanilla</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="vadding.html" title="vadding"/><link rel="next" href="vanity-domain.html" title="vanity domain"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">vanilla</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="vadding.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">V</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="vanity-domain.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="vanilla"/><dt xmlns="" id="vanilla"><b>vanilla</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the default flavor of ice cream in the U.S.] Ordinary
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<a href="../F/flavor.html"><i class="glossterm">flavor</i></a>, standard. When used of food, very often
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does not mean that the food is flavored with vanilla extract! For example,
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<span class="firstterm">vanilla wonton soup</span> means ordinary
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wonton soup, as opposed to hot-and-sour wonton soup. Applied to hardware
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and software, as in “<span class="quote">Vanilla Version 7 Unix can't run on a vanilla
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11/34.</span>” Also used to orthogonalize chip nomenclature; for instance,
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a 74V00 means what TI calls a 7400, as distinct from a 74LS00, etc. This
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word differs from <a href="../C/canonical.html"><i class="glossterm">canonical</i></a> in that the latter means
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‘default’, whereas vanilla simply means ‘ordinary’.
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For example, when hackers go on a <a href="../G/great-wall.html"><i class="glossterm">great-wall</i></a>,
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hot-and-sour soup is the <a href="../C/canonical.html"><i class="glossterm">canonical</i></a> soup to get
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(because that is what most of them usually order) even though it isn't the
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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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