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  2. Glossary of computer hardware terms - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Spec - Wikipedia

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    Spec may refer to: Specification (technical standard) , an explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service datasheet , or "spec sheet"

  4. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    EMS—Expanded Memory Specification; ENIAC—Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer; EOF—End of File; EOL—End of Life; EOL—End of Line; EOM—End of Message; EOS—End of Support; EPIC—Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing; EPROM—Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory; ERD—Entity–Relationship Diagram; ERM—Entity ...

  5. Glossary of computer science - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. List of information technology initialisms - Wikipedia

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    Meaning Primary Applicability [4] Normative Reference ACK: Acknowledgement Transport and other layers TCP/IP, for example. RFC 793 ACL: Access control list Security, application layer Access control list, Cisco overview: ADSL: Asymmetric digital subscriber line Telecom ITU-T G.992.5 Annex M, for example AES: Advanced Encryption Standard Security

  7. Specification (technical standard) - Wikipedia

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    A program specification is the definition of what a computer program is expected to do. It can be informal , in which case it can be considered as a user manual from a developer point of view, or formal , in which case it has a definite meaning defined in mathematical or programmatic terms.

  8. List of computer term etymologies - Wikipedia

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    liveware – computer personnel. A play on the terms "software" and "hardware". Coined in 1966, the word indicates that sometimes the computer problem is not with the computer itself, but with the user. Lotus Software – Lotus founder Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' ('Padmasana' in Sanskrit).

  9. Functional specification - Wikipedia

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    A functional specification (also, functional spec, specs, functional specifications document (FSD), functional requirements specification) in systems engineering and software development is a document that specifies the functions that a system or component must perform (often part of a requirements specification) (ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765-2010).