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COMPUTING ACRONYMS & TERMS' SMORGASBORD
Copyright © 1994-2003, Daniel Frankl, Ph.D. |
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COMPUTING ACRONYMS & TERMS' SMORGASBORD
Copyright © 1994-2003, Daniel Frankl, Ph.D. |
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| G AC | Graphics Accelerator Card (hardware designed to speed up graphics display on the monitor; very fast GACs are useful for advanced designs as well as computer games with complex graphics) |
| .gam | Gamma file extension (Target Gamma, for example, is used to calibrate the color brightness and contrast of an image for display on a monitor). |
| GA Netwatch | Gardian Angels Netwatch (Group founded by New York radio talk show host Curtis Silva) |
| Gateway | Device that connects and transfers information between two PCs |
| GB | Gigabyte (1000 * 1024 * 1024 = 104,857,600 bytes) or 1000 MB [Megabyte]; also see TB [TeraByte]. |
| GCR | Group Coded Recording (Information storage system where single bytes are assembled into groups and each group has a code by which it is then stored on the disk (used in RLL--Run Length Limited drives). |
| GDI | Graphics Device (Data/ Display) Interface (connects the DDI [Device Driver Interface] and the HD [Hard Drive] in a graphics accelerator card) |
| GET | HTTP GET request sent by browser to IP address to load a file from a Web server. |
| GIF | (1) Graphic Interchange Format (.gif file extension; popular Internet graphic file format developed by CompuServe). |
| .gif | (2) Graphic Interface File (.gif file extension). |
| Gigabyte | One Gig equals 1,000 Megabytes or 1000 * 1024 * 1024 = 104,857,600 digital bytes |
| GII | Global Information Infrastructure |
| GIS | Geographical Information System (NIS [Network Information Services] Server). |
| #--GL | 3rd, 5th etc...Generation Language (stages in the development of a programming language) |
| GM | General MIDI [Musical Instrument Digital Interface]. |
| GMR | Giant Magnetoresistive effect (Data storage technology that can resist magnetic field damaging effect) |
| GMTA | Great minds think alike (E-mail acronym to speed up electronic mail message writing) |
| GND | Ground (for PC power supply; also see ESD [Electros tatic Discharge]) |
| GOPHER | Not an acronym; named after the rodent. Gopher is a University of Minnesota distributed document search and retrieval system (virtually anyone with an Internet account can use Gopher). |
| GPF | General Protection Fault (Generally indicates memory problems, such as, memory shortages and memory conflicts. Sometimes, GPFs are caused by corrupted files). |
| GPRS | General Packet Radio Service (Packet-data technology to send and receive data at throughput up to 56 kbps) |
| GPS | Global Positioning System Intelligent Sensor receives data from earth-orbiting satellites and indicates your location to within 50 or less meters. |
| .grp | Group file extension (programs with different utilities or applications are stored in .GRP files in Windows' Program Manager). |
| GSM | Global System for Mobile communication (The European standard for wireless computer-based services (GSM is based on TDMA [Time-division multiple access]). |
| GSNW | Gateway Services for Net Ware |
| GTLD | Global Top Level Domain name |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface-- pronounced "gooey," it uses graphical pictures in combination with keystrokes and mouse button clicks to carry out commands. It was designed to be easier to use than a character-based interface, such as DOS. Microsoft Windows is a GUI or VUI (Visual User Interface). |
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Page updated: Jan. 05, 2003 |
