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A mid-1970s science fiction novel by David Gerrold, When H.A.R.L.I.E. was One, includes a description of a fictional computer program named VIRUS that worked just like a virus (and was countered by a program named ANTIBODY). The term "computer virus" also appears in the comic book "Uncanny X-Men" No. 158, published in 1982. A computer virus's ...
This is an alphabetical list of notable technology terms. It includes terms with notable applications in computing, networking, and other technological fields. Contents
CAI—Computer-aided instruction; CAM—Computer-aided manufacturing; CAP—Consistency availability partition tolerance (theorem) CAPTCHA—Completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart; CAT—Computer-aided translation; CAQ—Computer-aided quality assurance; CASE—Computer-aided software engineering; cc—C compiler
Also simply application or app. Computer software designed to perform a group of coordinated functions, tasks, or activities for the benefit of the user. Common examples of applications include word processors, spreadsheets, accounting applications, web browsers, media players, aeronautical flight simulators, console games, and photo editors. This contrasts with system software, which is ...
Lists of computer terms (9 P) Pages in category "Computing-related lists" The following 131 pages are in this category, out of 131 total.
See also References External links A Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) A dedicated video bus standard introduced by INTEL enabling 3D graphics capabilities; commonly present on an AGP slot on the motherboard. (Presently a historical expansion card standard, designed for attaching a video card to a computer's motherboard (and considered high-speed at launch, one of the last off-chip parallel ...
Personal computer (host) Hardware PIM: Personal information manager Software category PCM: Pulse-code modulation Physical layer ITU-T G.711: PDU: Protocol data unit (such as segment, packet, frame, etc.) Multiple layers Fed Std 1037C: POP3: Post Office Protocol, version 3 Application layer RFC 1939 POP: Point of presence Telecom Telecom ...
From Category:Terminology: Articles belonging to this category and its subcategories are devoted in whole or in large part to a discussion of terminology.... It should not be used as a category for articles about those topics in general; when suitable specific categories don't exist to hold them they should be placed into the root category for that topic until a better categorization presents ...