The TUNES Glossary

"When words are unfit, speech is unadapted and actions are unsuccessful"
-- Confucius

Beware: this page is under perpetual construction (mind the Tunes Warnings...)
This glossary tries to explain the actual meaning of words related to the world of computers and operating systems, beyond slogans and myths. When multiple meanings exist, it explains which is used in the Tunes project.
Because this document is politically pledged (computer-wise), partiality may have involuntarily slipped in it many times; please report the in-exactitude, confusion, and misguiding style that you will no doubt find in it.
Please also note that some project members have expressed reservations about some definitions given for some words with political connotations that exceed the computer world.


Glossary


Other related glossaries (may disagree with ours)


To Do

  • Words to add

  • Other

  • Include these from the obsolete Glossary.nfo file:
    * Escaping:			has different meanings according to the context
    *  Escape Sequences::		A simple standard way of multiplexing a line
    *  Escaping References::	Object references that escape their scope
    * Operating System::		A program that manages computer resources
    * Disk Operating System::	means a Disk-oriented Operating System
    * DOS::				see (* Disk Operating System::)
    * MS-DOS::			Micro-Soft's DOS for the IBM-PC and compatibles
    
    Node: Escaping References
    
      An reference (see * Reference::) to an object is said to *escape* a scope
    when it is copied into a region that may be freed after this scope. Thus,
    the object shall not be freed when the scope exits, even if the other objects
    in the scope are made invalid. The object may then be allocated elsewhere than
    the execution stack.
      An object (see * Object::) is said to escape a scope when a reference to
    this object escapes the scope.
      This notion is useful for * Garbage Collection::.
    


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