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Browsing 'C'
Found 54 entries under 'C'
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client (Score: 0) The process or machine that is using a particular resource that is provided by a server. In X-Windows, a client is... |
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client-server model (Score: 0) A model in which some components act as servers that provide resources or services, and other components act as {clien... |
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clock tick (Score: 0) The term used for an interrupt received at regular intervals from the programmable interrupt timer or clock. Clock tic... |
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CMOS (Score: 0) Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor. Technically, any chip that uses the CMOS technology, but more commonly used to ... |
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COM port (Score: 0) Common term for a serial port. Although this is actually the DOS term, it is used often. The term comes from 'communic... |
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command (Score: 0) A set of words or characters that is interpreted by an operating system as a request for it to perform an action. |
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command alias (Score: 0) An alternate name for a command. |
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command argument (Score: 0) Subsequent information passed to a command. This normally refers to information (such as the name of a file) that need... |
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command flags (Score: 0) Arguments passed to a command that change its behaviour. |
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command line (Score: 0) The place on your screen, usually indicated by a prompt, where a user input commands. May also refer to the string o... |
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command line interpreter (Score: 0) A program that accepts and reacts to a command line. |
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command options (Score: 0) Arguments passed to a command that change its behaviour. |
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command substitution (Score: 0) When used in a command, the output of the command enclosed in back-ticks is substituted into the command line be... |
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compile (Score: 0) The process of taking the source code for a program and converting it into instructions that a computer understands.... |
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Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (Score: 0) CMOS. Technically any chip that uses the CMOS technology, but more commonly used to refer to a special chip that retains... |
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Complex Instruction Set Computer (Score: 0) CISC. The opposite of RISC, a processor which supports a large number of often complex assembly instructions. The X86 ... |
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compression (Score: 0) The process of encoding data to reduce space. Typically repeated information is replaced with smaller, encoded units... |
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contention (Score: 0) Two or more devices, processes, etc. requesting a system resource at the same time. For example, when two device... |
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context (Score: 0) The set of data, including the CPU register values and uarea, that describe the state of a process. |
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context switch (Score: 0) The process by which a system changes from a current or active process to another. |
