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  2. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    UMB—Upper Memory Block; UML—Unified Modeling Language; UML—User-Mode Linux; UMPC—Ultra-Mobile Personal Computer; UMTS—Universal Mobile Telecommunications System; UNC—Universal Naming Convention; UNIVAC—Universal Automatic Computer (By MKS) UPS—Uninterruptible Power Supply or Uninterrupted Power Supply; URI—Uniform Resource ...

  3. List of information technology initialisms - Wikipedia

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    Organization Unique Identifier Link and other layers IEEE OUI Assignments: PAP: Password authentication protocol Security RFC 1334 PAT: Port address translation Internet Layer RFC 1918 PaaS: Platform as a service Cloud Computing/Service Platform as a service: PC: Personal computer (host) Hardware PIM: Personal information manager Software ...

  4. MAC address - Wikipedia

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    The Individual Address Block (IAB) is an inactive registry which has been replaced by the MA-S (MAC address block, small), previously named OUI-36, and has no overlaps in addresses with the IAB [6] registry product as of January 1, 2014. The IAB uses an OUI from the MA-L (MAC address block, large) registry, previously called the OUI registry.

  5. Logical block addressing - Wikipedia

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    Logical block addressing (LBA) is a common scheme used for specifying the location of blocks of data stored on computer storage devices, generally secondary storage systems such as hard disk drives. LBA is a particularly simple linear addressing scheme; blocks are located by an integer index, with the first block being LBA 0, the second LBA 1 ...

  6. Block (data storage) - Wikipedia

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    DBMSes often use their own block I/O for improved performance and recoverability as compared to layering the DBMS on top of a file system. On Linux the default block size for most file systems is 4096 bytes. The stat command part of GNU Core Utilities can be used to check the block size. In Rust a block can be read with the read_exact method. [6]

  7. Address bar - Wikipedia

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    An address bar. In a web browser, the address bar (also location bar or URL bar) is the element that shows the current URL. The user can type a URL into it to navigate to a chosen website. In most modern browsers, non-URLs are automatically sent to a search engine.

  8. Glossary of computer hardware terms - Wikipedia

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    The interface is primarily used to connect a video source to a display device such as a computer monitor, though it can also be used to transmit audio, USB, and other forms of data. Unline HDMI, DisplayPort is open source. drive bay A standard-sized area within a computer case for adding hardware (hard drives, CD drives, etc.) to a computer.

  9. System bus - Wikipedia

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    Example of a single system computer bus. A system bus is a single computer bus that connects the major components of a computer system, combining the functions of a data bus to carry information, an address bus to determine where it should be sent or read from, and a control bus to determine its operation. The technique was developed to reduce ...