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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-busines ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

certificate authority

Computer; Workstations

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