May 15, 2003

virgin

adj.

Unused; pristine; in a known initial state. Let's bring up a virgin system and see if it crashes again. (Esp.: useful after contracting a virus through SEX.) Also, by extension, buffers and the like within a program that have not yet been used.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:24 AM

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