Workstations

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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word

Computer; Workstations

An ordered set of characters that are stored, addressed, transmitted and operated on as a single entity within a given computer. In the context of SPARC workstations, a word is 32 bits.

document type definition (DTD)

An optional part of the XML document prolog, as specified by the XML standard. The DTD specifies constraints on the valid tags and tag sequences that can be in the document. The DTD has a number of ...

condition variable

Computer; Workstations

For Solaris threads, a condition variable enables threads to atomically block until a condition is satisfied. The condition is tested under the protection of a mutex lock. When the condition is ...

Store 0

Computer; Workstations

Flushing the underflowed result of an arithmetic operation to zero.

form-based authentication

Computer; Workstations

An authentication mechanism in which a Web container provides an application-specific form for logging in. This form of authentication uses Base64 encoding and can expose user names and passwords ...

arbitration stop

Computer; Workstations

A condition that occurs when one of the OPL system ASICs detects a parity error or equivalent fatal system error. Bus arbitration is frozen, so all bus activity stops.

hidden bits

Computer; Workstations

Extra bits used by hardware to ensure correct rounding, not accessible by software. For example, IEEE double precision operations use three hidden bits to compute a 56-bit result that is then rounded ...