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COMPUTING ACRONYMS & TERMS' SMORGASBORD
Copyright © 1994-2003, Daniel Frankl, Ph.D. |
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COMPUTING ACRONYMS & TERMS' SMORGASBORD
Copyright © 1994-2003, Daniel Frankl, Ph.D. |
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| U ARTs | Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitters (serial port type chip utilized in PCs ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UCAID | University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (formal nonprofit organization that heads the Internet2 effort) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UDF | Uniqueness Database File (personal or unique ID for a networked PC) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UDF | User Defined Field (category) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UDP | Universal Datagram Protocol (server transmission mechanism) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UFL | Universal Font Library (instead of having each application run its own fonts, all fonts are stored in a central location to avoid duplication and save disk space) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UI | User-Interface (Windows environment; also see GUI [Graphical User Interface] & VUI [Visual User Interface) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UIAS |
Unified Information Access System (one global system to
access all on-line data bases)
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UL 1449
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Underwriters Laboratory's listing standard for PC surge suppressors.
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UM
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United Media
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UMB
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Upper Memory Blocks (a switch which specifies whether MS-DOS should
manage upper memory blocks; UMB constitutes free memory space in the 384 K of memory available
beyond the 640 K of conventional memory).
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UNC
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Universal Network Connection
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UNI
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User-to-Network Interface
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Unicode
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A character set supported by Windows NT [New Technology] that can create
the 65,536 characters used by all known modern & ancient world's languages (not supported by
Windows 3.1, '95; may be supported by Windows 98; 2000??).
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Universal | Resource Names
Dedicated names for cyberspace objects (thus browsers may pick up a virtual object from
the spot it was last deposited at--like a book or pen left at a certain location).
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UPS
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Uninterruptible Power Supply--provided by surge suppressors that include a
battery as a back-up or as a permanent power source (also a "snail mail" mode of software
transportation as contrasted with the e-mail FTP [File transfer Protocol] off cite immediate
software download option)
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URLs
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Internet Uniform Resource Locators (Standard for Internet addresses)
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USB
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Universal Serial Bus
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US CERT
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the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team
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USER.EXE
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Windows code that controls the Windows interface (display of menus, scroll bars & buttons).
GDI.EXE, controls data display.
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User ID
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The name or characters one uses to log on to the system thrgh a PC (userid or username
have the same meaning)
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USGPI
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U.S. Government Periodicals' Index (Internet)
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UTP
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Unshielded Twisted-Pair cable (also called 10Base-T, the Category 5
unshielded twisted-pair cable is used for Ethernet connections on a LAN
[Local Area Network] between workstations).
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UVV
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Usenet Volunteer Vote takers (group that handles vote gathering & counting
for the approval or disapproval of new news group proposals; e-mail address:
uvv_contact@uvv.org.
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Comments, corrections, additions, and questions are welcome:
Page updated: July 12, 2004 |
