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TRANSPARENT: Being Or Pertaining To An Existing, Nontangible Object.
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TRANSPARENT:
Being or pertaining to an existing, nontangible object.
"It's there, but you can't see it"
-- IBM System/360 announcement, 1964.
VIRTUAL:
Being or pertaining to a tangible, nonexistent object.
"I can see it, but it's not there."
-- Lady Macbeth.
Related:
If you can see it and it's there, then it's real. If you can see it and it's not there, then it's virtual.
If you can't see it and it's there, then it's transparent....
If it's not there and you can see it -- it's virtual.
oftwarily /soft-weir'i-lee/ adv. In a way pertaining to software.
The system is softwarily unreliable." The adjective **`softwary' is not used....
What is virtual memory? Virtual memory allows you to use more memory than your machine has.
If something is transparent, it's there, but you can't see i...
oftwarily: /soft-weir'i-lee/ adv. In a way pertaining to software.
"The system is softwarily unreliable." The adjective **`softwary' is *not* used....
hardwarily /hard-weir'*-lee/ adv. In a way pertaining to hardware.
The system is hardwarily unreliable." The adjective `hardwary' is not traditionally used, though it has recently been reported from the U....
hardwarily: /hard-weir'*-lee/ adv. In a way pertaining to hardware.
The system is hardwarily unreliable." The adjective `hardwary' is *not* traditionally used, though it has recently been reported from the U....
Lisa: That's the book I need. You'll probably take forever with it, too.
Hugh: I can read faster than you. Lisa: I read at a 78th grade level....
vaxocentrism /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ n. [analogy with `ethnocentrism'] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (esp.
under Unix) on VAXen but false elsewhere. Among these are...