enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Reset (computing) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reset_(computing)

    User initiated hard resets can be used to reset the device if the software hangs, crashes, or is otherwise unresponsive. However, data may become corrupted if this occurs. [ 6 ] Generally, a hard reset is initiated by pressing a dedicated reset button On some systems (e.g, the PlayStation 2 video game console), pressing and releasing the power ...

  3. Halt and Catch Fire (computing) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire...

    In computer engineering, Halt and Catch Fire, known by the assembly language mnemonic HCF, is an idiom referring to a computer machine code instruction that causes the computer's central processing unit (CPU) to cease meaningful operation, typically requiring a restart of the computer.

  4. Application checkpointing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_checkpointing

    One of the original and now most common means of application checkpointing was a "save state" feature in interactive applications, in which the user of the application could save the state of all variables and other data and either continue working or exit the application and restart the application and restore the saved state at a later time.

  5. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computing_and_IT...

    SDK—Software Development Kit; SDL—Simple DirectMedia Layer; SDN—Service Delivery Network; SDP—Session Description Protocol; SDR—Software-Defined Radio; SDRAM—Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory; SDSL—Symmetric DSL; SE—Single Ended; SEI—Software Engineering Institute; SEO—Search Engine Optimization; SFTP—Secure FTP

  6. Software architecture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_architecture

    Software architecture erosion may occur in each stage of the software development life cycle and has varying impacts on the development speed and the cost of maintenance. Software architecture erosion occurs due to various reasons, such as architectural violations , the accumulation of technical debt , and knowledge vaporization . [ 40 ]

  7. Cold start (computing) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_start_(computing)

    Cold start (or cold boot) may also refer to a booting process of a single computer (or virtual machine). [2] In this case services and other startup applications are executed after reboot. The system is typically made available to the user even though startup operations are still performed and slow down other operations.

  8. Computer architecture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_architecture

    The first documented computer architecture was in the correspondence between Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace, describing the analytical engine.While building the computer Z1 in 1936, Konrad Zuse described in two patent applications for his future projects that machine instructions could be stored in the same storage used for data, i.e., the stored-program concept.

  9. Code refactoring - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_refactoring

    In computer programming and software design, code refactoring is the process of restructuring existing source code—changing the factoring—without changing its external behavior. Refactoring is intended to improve the design, structure, and/or implementation of the software (its non-functional attributes), while preserving its functionality .