On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 14:55:23 -0400, Andy Saxena wrote:
> Hmmmm...what's an architecture?
"dict" is your friend.
>From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]:
4: (computer science) the structure and organization of a
computer's hardware or system software; "the architecture
of a computer's system software" [syn: {computer
architecture}]
>From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (06 Jun 01) [foldoc]:
Design, the way components fit together. The term is used
particularly of {processors}, both individual and in general.
"The {ARM} has a really clean architecture". It may also
be used of any complex system, e.g. "software architecture",
"network architecture".
Within Debian, "architecture" primarily refers to "processor architecture",
a family of CPUs with a common instruction set, e.g. "the x86 archictecture"
(Intel 386, 486, Pentium etc.), or "the m68k architecture" (Motorola 68000,
68020, 68030 etc.).
HTH,
Ray
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