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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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| W AI | Web Accessibility Initiative (pronounced ‘way' the WAI is a W3C [WWWC or World Wide Web Consortium] task force whose mission is to create Web formats and protocols, such as SGML, HTML, HTTP, etc. that accommodate, and better serve the needs of 750 million individuals with disabilities world wide; see www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html |
| WAIS | Wide Area Information Servers (Developed by Brewster Kahl in the late 1980s and has since been the standard search tool on the Web; WAIS is a system that creates databases of related files with a score system. A score of 1,000 means that the file you retrieved contains precisely the words or phrases you've been looking for). |
| .WAV | Window Audio/Visual (sound) file extension |
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Wave- table | High quality sample of stored musical instruments sounds on chips |
| WBI | Web Based Instruction |
| WCA | Web Content Accessibility (Guidelines that explain how to make web content accessible to individuals with disabilities, e.g., color blindness, hearing, or vision impairement. Also check out Bobby "...a free service provided by CAST to help Web page authors identify and repair significant barriers to access by individuals with disabilities.") |
| WCDMA | Wide CDMA [Code Division Multiple Access] |
| .wcm | WordPerfect Corporation Macro (WPWIN60) file extension |
| WD | Western Digital (PC HD [Hard Drive] makers) |
| WDctrl | Western Digital controller |
| WDM | Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (an all-optical technology that increases fiber capacity by combining channels) |
| WDM | Windows Driver Model |
| Web | Short for World Wide Web or WWW or W3 (developed by scientists for free access to on-line scientific information and data bases) |
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Web- casting | Broadcasting over the Internet (Technology pioneered by PointCast which turned into a Microsoft/PointCast joint venture with products such as, MSNBC; also see Constellation by Netscape) |
| WEP | Wired Equivalent Privacy |
| WFWG | Windows For Work Groups (3.11) |
| WIM | Workgroup Information Manager (also see PIM [Personal Info. Manager) |
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Win- 386.EXE | Is initiated by WIN.COM and is the engine that drives Windows. Win386.EXE switches the system from "real mode" to "protected mode"--a change that allows Windows to take full advantage of the CPU and available memory above 1 MB. |
| WinCIM | CompuServe Information Manager for Windows. |
| Win.COM | WINdows COMmand (A short program that displays the Windows log and verifies that your PC can run Windows). |
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Windows '95 | (win'do-s-95): n. A 32 bit extensions and graphical interface for a 16 bit shell to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition. (source: EmailJoke.com) |
| WinG | Windows Games (MS-WIN software for game developers; also see SDK [Software Developer's Kit]). |
| WINOA | Windows Old Application |
| WIPO | World Wide Intellectual Property Organization |
| WISP | Wideband Infrared Scene Projector |
| WMF | Windows Metafile Format (a non PostScript format; Vector-based images; .wmf --Windows metafile graphics file extension). |
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Word Process- ing | Applications that are especially designed for the creation of text-based documents. Word processors such as WordPerfect 9.0 Microsoft Word Office 2000 or Ami pro provide the writer with a very large variety of formatting options, styles, fonts and graphs. Currently, word processors can display graphics and allow direct publication of text and graphics into Web pages. |
| Worm | A virus-like program that can run by itself and circulate between networked computers; different systems may have different parts of worms running on them. The worm replicates itself and cloggs the system. This results in significant system slowdown and or shutdown (An imfamous 2001 worm "Code Red" attacks MS NT systems by taking advantage of a design flow in the IIS [Internet Information Devices] code. |
| WORM | Write Once Read Many (as in Optical WORM disks) |
| WPP | Web Presence Provider |
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Page updated: Jan. 05, 2003 |
