:virtual: [via the technical term `virtual memory', prob. from
the term `virtual image' in optics] adj. 1. Common alternative
to {logical}; often used to refer to the artificial objects
(like addressable virtual memory larger than physical memory)
created by a computer system to help the system control access to
shared resources. 2. Simulated; performing the functions of
something that isn't really there. An imaginative child's doll may
be a virtual playmate. Oppose {real}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
the term `virtual image' in optics] adj. 1. Common alternative
to {logical}; often used to refer to the artificial objects
(like addressable virtual memory larger than physical memory)
created by a computer system to help the system control access to
shared resources. 2. Simulated; performing the functions of
something that isn't really there. An imaginative child's doll may
be a virtual playmate. Oppose {real}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- virtual adj.
[via the technical term `virtual memory',
prob. from the term `virtual image' in optics] 1. Common... - real: adj. Not simulated. Often used as a specific antonym to
{virtual} in any of its jargon senses.
The AI Hackers... - VVM Vaporise
Virtual... - jiffy: n. 1. The duration of one tick of the system clock on the
computer (see {tick}).
Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the U.S... - moby /moh'bee/
[MIT: seems to have been in use among
model railroad fans years ago.
Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick" (some say from... - 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... - jiffy n.
1. The duration of one tick of the system clock on
your computer (see tick).
Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the U.S... - swap: vt. 1. [techspeak] To move information from a fast-access
memory to a slow-access memory (`swap out'),
or vice versa (`swap in'). Often refers specifically... - real adj.
Not simulated.
Often used as a specific antonym to virtual in any...
From the same category:
- Parsley is gharsley.
--
Ogden... - Do they still keep track of me at the Agency?"
"We heard you married some old Nazi."
"He was NOT a Nazi -
he was Austrian." "So was Hitler." "Yes, but *he*... - Reporters like Bill Greider from the Washington Post and Him
Naughton of the New York Times,
for instance, had to file long, detailed, and relatively... - Thats why I was running the debugger, I didn't want it to crash.
Aaron... - People will go to the most incredible lengths to make fools of themselves.
Solomon...
