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Dar⋅win

  [dahr-win]
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1. Charles (Robert), 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
2. his grandfather, Erasmus, 1731–1802, English naturalist and poet.
3. a seaport in and the capital of Northern Territory, in N Australia. 56,482.
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Dar·win   (där'wĭn)   
A city of northern Australia on Port Darwin, an inlet of the Timor Sea. It was founded as Palmerston in 1869 and renamed in 1911. Population: 106,000.
Darwin, Charles Robert 1809-1882.  
British naturalist who revolutionized the study of biology with his theory of evolution based on natural selection. His most famous works include Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871).
Dar·win'i·an adj. & n.
Darwin, Erasmus 1731-1802.  
British physician, scientist, and poet whose Zoonomia (1794-1796) anticipated the evolutionary theories of his grandson Charles.
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Darwin Dar·win (där'wĭn), Charles Robert. 1809-1882.

British naturalist who revolutionized the study of biology with his theory of evolution based on natural selection. His most famous works include Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871).

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Darwin
1. An operating system based on the FreeBSD version of Unix, running on top of a microkernel (Mach 3.0 with darwin 1.02) that offers advanced networking, services such as the Apache web server, and support for both Macintosh and Unix file systems. Darwin was originally released in March 1999. It currently runs on PowerPC based Macintosh computers, and, in October 2000, was being ported to Intel processor-based computers and compatible systems by the Darwin community.
2. A general purpose structuring tool of use in building complex distributed systems from diverse components and diverse component interaction mechanisms. Darwin is being developed by the Distributed Software Engineering Section of the Department of Computing at Imperial College. It is in essence a declarative binding language which can be used to define hierarchic compositions of interconnected components. Distribution is dealt with orthogonally to system structuring. The language allows the specification of both static structures and dynamic structures which evolve during execution. The central abstractions managed by Darwin are components and services. Bindings are formed by manipulating references to services.
The operational semantics of Darwin is described in terms of the Pi-calculus, Milner's calculus of mobile processes. The correspondence between the treatment of names in the Pi-calculus and the management of service references in Darwin leads to an elegant and concise Pi-calculus model of Darwin's operational semantics. The model has proved useful in arguing the correctness of Darwin implementations and in designing extensions to Darwin and reasoning about their behaviour.
Distributed Software Engineering Section. Darwin publications.
E-mail: Jeff Magee , Naranker Dulay .
3. Core War.
(2003-08-08)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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