1. clock speed clock rate clone 1. An exact copy of a product, made legally or illegally, from documentation or by reverse engineering, and usually cheaper. E. g. "PC clone": a PC-BUS/ISA, EISA, VESA, or PCI compatible x86-based microcomputer this use is sometimes misspelled "klone" or "PClone". These invariably have much m bang per buck than the IB PCM they resemble. E. g. "Unix clone": An operating system designed to deliver a Unix-like environment without Unix licence fees or with additional "mission-critical" features such as support for real-time programming. 2. A clonebot. [Jargon File]
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