- Industry: Computer
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Sometimes referred to as “Big Blue” IBM is a multinational corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York. It manufactures computer hardware and software and provides information technology and services.
The capability to write and run programmes or perform functions without regard for the physical characteristics of devices. See also device dependence.
Industry:Software
The card, connected by a cable to a bus extension driver (BED) card, that is used to route data from one card enclosure to another card enclosure. The direction of data can be from the processing unit to an input/output processor in one of the card enclosures, or from an input/output processor in one of the card enclosures to the processing unit. See also bus extension driver card.
Industry:Software
The card, connected by a cable to a bus extension receiver (BER) card, that is used to route data from one card enclosure to another card enclosure. The direction of data can be from the processing unit to an input/output processor in one of the card enclosures, or from an input/output processor in one of the card enclosures to the processing unit. See also bus extension receiver card.
Industry:Software
The category to which a process belongs. All the activities in a process inherit the same process-type attribute. categorising processes makes it easier to find a particular process or activity - the BTS browsing commands allow filtering by process-type.
Industry:Software
The CCITT Recommendation that defines the generic procedures applicable for the control of supplementary services at the user-network interface. These procedures expand on the basic call-control functions defined in Q.931. See also supplementary service.
Industry:Software
The central point for all calls within an H.323 Zone. An H.323 client registers with a gatekeeper to become part of an H.323 Zone. The gatekeeper performs switching functions for clients within the zone. It also performs bandwidth management services by preventing the number of connexions from rising above a specified limit.
Industry:Software
The character (comma in the United States) placed every third number starting left of the decimal point. For example, three thousands separators are used in the number: 641,322,974,821.
Industry:Software
The character /, also known as forward slash. This character is named <slash> in the portable character set.
Industry:Software
The character . The backslash enables a user to escape the special meaning of a character. That is, typing a backslash before a character tells the system to ignore any special meaning the character might have.
Industry:Software
