meaning of bloggs family the
1. Bloggs Family, the An imaginary family consisting of Fred and Mary Bloggs and their children. Used as a standard example in knowledge representation to show the difference between extensional and intensional objects. For example, every occurrence of "Fred Bloggs" is the same unique person, whereas occurrences of "person" may refer to different people. Members of the Bloggs family have been known to pop up in bizarre places such as the DEC Telephone Directory. Compare Mbogo, Dr. Fred. Blosim Block-Diagram Simulator. A block-diagram simulator. "A Tool for Structured Functional Simulation", D. G. Messerschmitt, IEEE J on Selected Areas in Comm, SAC-21:137-147, 1984. blow an EPROM /bloh *n eeprom/ Or "blast", "burn" To program a read-only memory, e. g. for use with an embedded system. This term arose because the programming process for the Programmable Read-Only Memory PROM that preceded present-day Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory EPROM involved intentionally blowing tiny electrical fuses on the chip. The usage lives on its too vivid and expressive to discard even though the write process on EPROMs is nondestructive. [Jargon File]
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