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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>clone</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="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="clocks.html" title="clocks"/><link rel="next" href="clone-and-hack-coding.html" title="clone-and-hack coding"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">clone</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="clocks.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="clone-and-hack-coding.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="clone"/><dt xmlns="" id="clone"><b>clone</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. An exact duplicate: “<span class="quote">Our product is a clone of their
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product.</span>” Implies a legal reimplementation from documentation or by
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reverse-engineering. Also connotes lower price. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A shoddy, spurious copy: “<span class="quote">Their product is a clone of our
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product.</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 3. A blatant ripoff, most likely violating copyright, patent, or
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trade secret protections: “<span class="quote">Your product is a clone of my
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product.</span>” This use implies legal action is pending.</p></dd><dd><p> 4. [obs] <span class="firstterm">PC clone:</span> a
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PC-BUS/ISA/EISA/PCI-compatible 80x86-based microcomputer (this use is
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sometimes spelled <span class="firstterm">klone</span> or <span class="firstterm">PClone</span>). 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
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<span class="firstterm">PCs</span> or <span class="firstterm">Intel machines</span>. </p></dd><dd><p> 5. [obs.] In the construction <span class="firstterm">Unix
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clone</span>: An OS designed to deliver a Unix-lookalike environment
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without Unix license fees, or with additional
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‘mission-critical’ features such as support for real-time
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programming. <a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a> and the free BSDs killed off
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this product category and the term with it. </p></dd><dd><p> 6. <span class="grammar">v.</span> To make an exact copy of
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something. “<span class="quote">Let me clone that</span>” might mean “<span class="quote">I want to
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borrow that paper so I can make a photocopy</span>” or “<span class="quote">Let me get a
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copy of that file before you <a href="../M/mung.html"><i class="glossterm">mung</i></a> it</span>”.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="clocks.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="clone-and-hack-coding.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">clocks </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> clone-and-hack coding</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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