ABCD - Altavista Business Card Directory
ABCD - Altavista Business Card DirectoryFree directory service that was available on the internet and was LDAP compatible.
ABC - Atanasoff-Bery Computer
ABC - Atanasoff-Bery Computer Precursor of the ENIAC, and which, as such, is sometimes considered the first electronic digital computer. It was created by John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry.
ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATM is the information transmission technology that combines the advantages of circuit switching (real-time communication) with bandwidth-management efficiency characteristic of packet switching. ATM is an asynchronous transfer technology for multiplex…
AAL layers - ATM Adaptation Layer -
AAL is an additional layers to the ATM protocol for data synchronization or error correction.ATM adaptive layers are responsible for segmenting and reassembling cells from applications. ATM has been designed…
AAC - Advanced Audio Coding -
Advanced Audio Coding AAC is a sound coding standardized by ISO. Compared to MP3, the AAC provides superior music reproduction quality for lower bit rates and can accommodate up to…
A bit
Adress Recognized bit This is the end delimiter of a Token Ring transmission. This bit is generated by a station that identifies the destination address as its own. This helps…
A
[MS-DOS] [disk]. Under MS-DOS when this letter is followed by ":" it is the usual identifier of the first floppy disk drive. Example Copy command *. * A :, meaning…