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  2. Icon (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In computing, an icon is a pictogram or ideogram displayed on a computer screen in order to help the user navigate a computer system.The icon itself is a quickly comprehensible symbol of a software tool, function, or a data file, accessible on the system and is more like a traffic sign than a detailed illustration of the actual entity it represents. [1]

  3. Glossary of computer hardware terms - Wikipedia

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    A computer which may be used to provide services to clients. software Any computer program or other kind of information that can be read and/or written by a computer. single in-line memory module (SIMM) A type of memory module containing random-access memory used in computers from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Contrast DIMM. solid-state drive

  4. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    CAE—Computer-aided engineering; CAID—Computer-aided industrial design; CAI—Computer-aided instruction; CAM—Computer-aided manufacturing; CAP—Consistency availability partition tolerance (theorem) CAPTCHA—Completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart; CAT—Computer-aided translation

  5. List of symbols - Wikipedia

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    Engineering drawing symbols; Energy Systems Language; Hazard symbols; List of mathematical constants (typically letters and compound symbols) Glossary of mathematical symbols; List of physical constants (typically letters and compound symbols) List of common physics notations (typically letters used as variable names in equations)

  6. List of information technology initialisms - Wikipedia

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    Personal computer (host) Hardware PIM: Personal information manager Software category PCM: Pulse-code modulation Physical layer ITU-T G.711: PDU: Protocol data unit (such as segment, packet, frame, etc.) Multiple layers Fed Std 1037C: POP3: Post Office Protocol, version 3 Application layer RFC 1939 POP: Point of presence Telecom Telecom ...

  7. History of the graphical user interface - Wikipedia

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    The software running on the remote machine is called the client application. X's network transparency protocols allow the display and input portions of any application to be separated from the remainder of the application and 'served up' to any of a large number of remote users. X is available today as free software.

  8. Category:Computer icons - Wikipedia

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    Icon software (7 P) N. Non-free computer icons (3 C, 416 F) W. Wikipedia icons (1 C, 5 F) Pages in category "Computer icons"

  9. List of computer term etymologies - Wikipedia

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    It relates to both computer hardware and computer software. Names of many computer terms, especially computer applications, often relate to the function they perform, e.g., a compiler is an application that compiles (programming language source code into the computer's machine language). However, there are other terms with less obvious origins ...