1. имя существительное 1) а) ископаемое, окаменелость (остатки животных или растительных организмов, сохранившиеся в земной коре с прежних геологических эпох) б) [шутливое] ископаемое (какой-либо откопанный предмет) 2) а) что-либо старомодное, вышедшее из употребления; атавизм б) старомодный, отсталый человек Синоним(ы): fogey 2. прилагательное 1) ископаемый, окаменелый (сохранившийся в земной коре с прежних геологических эпох) Например: fossil plants — ископаемые растения fossil fuel — ископаемое топливо 2) а) допотопный, несовременный, старомодный, устаревший Синоним(ы): old-fashioned, out-of-date б) неспособный к развитию или прогрессу
(Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Layer) интерфейс драйверов для работы адаптеров множественных последовательных портов, интерфейс FOSSIL BBS обращается к такой плате через FOSSIL-драйвер, обеспечивающий существование на отдельном компьютере 16 последовательных портов без конфликтов по адресам и номерам прерываний
I. adjective Etymology: Latin fossilis obtained by digging, from fodere to dig — more at bed 1. preserved from a past geologic age Example: fossil plants Example: fossil water in an underground reservoir 2. being or resembling a fossil 3. of or relating to fossil fuel II. noun 1. a remnant, impression, or trace of an organism of past geologic ages that has been preserved in the earth's crust — compare living fossil 2. a. a person whose views are outmoded; fogy b. something (as a theory) that has become rigidly fixed 3. an old word or word element preserved only by idiom (as fro in to and fro)
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, which do not support interrupt-driven operation or setting speeds above 9600; the use of a semistandard FOSSIL library is preferable to the bare metal serial port programming otherwise required. Since the FOSSIL specification allows additional functionality to be hooked in, drivers that use the hook but do not provide serial-port access themselves are named with a modifier, as in "video fossil".