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Workstations

Of or pertaining to any computer intended for personal use, but with a much faster processor and more memory than an ordinary personal computer.

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AT Attachment Packet Interface

Computer; Workstations

An interface between the computer and attached CD-ROM and tape backup drives.

registry

Computer; Workstations

An infrastructure that enables the building, deployment, and discovery of Web services. It is a neutral third party that facilitates dynamic and loosely coupled business-to-business (B2B) ...

Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) project

Computer; Workstations

An industry initiative to create a platform-independent, open framework for describing services, discovering businesses, and integrating business services using the Internet, as well as a registry. ...

critical region

Computer; Workstations

An indivisible section of code that can only be executed by one thread at a time and is not interruptible by other threads; such as, code that accesses a shared variable. See also mutual exclusion, ...

default result

Computer; Workstations

The value that is delivered as the result of a floating-point operation that caused an exception.

uniprocessor system

Computer; Workstations

A uniprocessor system has only one processor active at any given time. This single processor can run multithreaded applications as well as the conventional single instruction single data model. See ...

certificate authority

Computer; Workstations

A trusted organization that issues public key certificates and provides identification to the bearer.

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