<s>
In	O
computer	B-General_Concept
science	I-General_Concept
,	O
vanilla	B-General_Concept
is	O
the	O
term	O
used	O
to	O
refer	O
when	O
computer	B-Application
software	I-Application
and	O
sometimes	O
also	O
other	O
computing-related	O
systems	O
like	O
computer	B-Architecture
hardware	I-Architecture
or	O
algorithms	O
are	O
not	O
customized	B-Application
from	O
their	O
original	O
form	O
,	O
i.e.	O
,	O
they	O
are	O
used	O
without	O
any	O
customizations	O
or	O
updates	O
applied	O
to	O
them	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Vanilla	B-General_Concept
software	I-General_Concept
has	O
become	O
a	O
widespread	O
de	O
facto	O
industry	O
standard	O
,	O
widely	O
used	O
by	O
businesses	O
and	O
individuals	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
term	O
comes	O
from	O
the	O
traditional	O
standard	O
flavor	O
of	O
ice	O
cream	O
,	O
vanilla	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
According	O
to	O
Eric	O
S	O
.	O
Raymond	O
's	O
The	O
New	O
Hacker	O
's	O
Dictionary	O
,	O
"	O
vanilla	B-General_Concept
"	O
means	O
more	O
"	O
default	O
"	O
than	O
"	O
ordinary	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Examples	O
of	O
how	O
to	O
use	O
"	O
vanilla	B-General_Concept
"	O
in	O
a	O
sentence	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
earliest	O
examples	O
,	O
IBM	O
's	O
mainframe	B-Architecture
text	O
publishing	O
system	O
BookMaster	O
,	O
provides	O
a	O
default	O
way	O
to	O
specify	O
which	O
parts	O
of	O
a	O
book	O
to	O
publish	O
,	O
called	O
"	O
vanilla	B-General_Concept
"	O
,	O
and	O
a	O
fancier	O
way	O
,	O
called	O
"	O
mocha	B-Language
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
term	O
"	O
vanilla	B-General_Concept
"	O
is	O
sometimes	O
also	O
used	O
for	O
hardware	B-Architecture
components	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
instance	O
,	O
in	O
the	O
1990s	O
non-upgraded	O
Amiga	B-Device
home	O
computers	O
were	O
called	O
"	O
(	O
plain	O
)	O
vanilla	B-General_Concept
"	O
;	O
similarly	O
,	O
it	O
was	O
later	O
also	O
applied	O
to	O
PC	B-Device
parts	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
Unix-based	O
kernels	B-Operating_System
,	O
a	O
"	O
vanilla	B-General_Concept
kernel	B-Operating_System
"	O
refers	O
to	O
a	O
kernel	B-Operating_System
that	O
has	O
been	O
unmodified	O
by	O
any	O
third-party	O
source	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
instance	O
,	O
the	O
vanilla	B-General_Concept
Linux	B-Operating_System
kernel	I-Operating_System
is	O
often	O
given	O
a	O
Linux	B-Operating_System
distributionspecific	O
"	O
flavour	O
"	O
by	O
being	O
heavily	O
modified	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
his	O
book	O
End	O
of	O
Ignorance	O
,	O
Charles	O
Winborne	O
refers	O
to	O
a	O
static	O
page	O
that	O
is	O
″only	O
a	O
text	O
file	O
,	O
but	O
one	O
that	O
links	O
to	O
accompanying	O
files″	O
as	O
a	O
plain-vanilla	O
web	O
page	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Fans	O
of	O
the	O
video	O
game	O
Minecraft	B-Application
,	O
usually	O
refer	O
to	O
the	O
game	O
without	O
mods	O
as	O
"	O
vanilla	B-General_Concept
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
JavaScript	B-Language
,	O
when	O
used	O
without	O
any	O
libraries	O
or	O
third	O
party	O
plugins	O
is	O
referred	O
to	O
as	O
"	O
vanilla	B-General_Concept
JavaScript	B-Language
"	O
.	O
</s>
