RE: Technical meaning for autonomous?

Subject: RE: Technical meaning for autonomous?
From: "Richard" <richard -dot- smith -at- windriver -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:17:06 -0800


| Does anyone use the word "autonomous" in any computer-related sense?
| It seems to be an example of too much sophistication:
| writing beyond the reader's ability to appreciate nuance.

it is commonly used to describe netwoks. As in OSPF is a routing protocol
used within autonomous systems, and BGP is a routing protocol used between
autonomous systems (weak definition, but you get the idea).


| Can anyone give me a sentence where the word "automatic" is
| necessary? Besids "automatic transmission," I mean.

in C/C++ programming... automatic (local) variables.
in the news... automatic weapon.
windows 2000 help turned up an impressive number of topics that included
automatic.


In the larger context of your question, I think the types of processes you
are referring to are usually termed something like background processes,
batch processes, or perhaps non-interactive processes. But I think I may be
missing something.

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Richard Smith
www.windriver.com



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