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・ forward delta
・ forward engineering
・ forward error correction
・ forwards compatibility
・ forwards compatible
・ forwiss
・ fosi
・ fosil
・ foss
fossil
・ foundation
・ foundation for research and technology - hellas
・ four colour map theorem
・ four colour theorem
・ four-colour glossies
・ fourier transform
・ fourth generation computer
・ fourth generation language
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fossil
1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in historical context, as a remnant of times past retained so as not to break compatibility. Example: the retention of octal as default base for string escapes in C, in spite of the better match of hexadecimal to ASCII and modern byte-addressable architectures. See dusty deck.
2. More restrictively, a feature with past but no present utility. Example: the force-all-caps (LCASE) bits in the V7 and BSD Unix tty driver, designed for use with monocase terminals. (In a perversion of the usual backward-compatibility goal, this functionality has actually been expanded and renamed in some later USG Unix releases as the IUCLC and OLCUC bits.)
3. The FOSSIL (Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Level) driver specification for serial-port access to replace the brain-dead routines in the IBM PC ROMs. Fossils are used by most MS-DOS BBS software in preference to the "supported" ROM routines, whic


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