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GPGPU—General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units; GPIB—General-Purpose Instrumentation Bus; GPL—General Public License; GPL—General-Purpose Language; GPRS—General Packet Radio Service; GPT—GUID Partition Table; GPU—Graphics Processing Unit; GRUB—Grand Unified Boot-Loader; GERAN—GSM EDGE Radio Access Network
A point-of-sale display (POS display) is a specialised form of sales promotion that is found near, on, or next to a checkout counter (the "point of sale"). They are intended to draw the customers' attention to products, which may be new products, or on special offer, and are also used to promote special events, e.g. seasonal or holiday-time sales.
The point of sale (POS) or point of purchase (POP) is the time and place at which a retail transaction is completed.At the point of sale, the merchant calculates the amount owed by the customer, indicates that amount, may prepare an invoice for the customer (which may be a cash register printout), and indicates the options for the customer to make payment.
Graphics represented as a rectangular grid of pixels. Rasterization Converting vector graphics to raster graphics. This terms also denotes a common method of rendering 3D models in real time. Ray casting Rendering by casting non-recursive rays from the camera into the scene. 2D ray casting is a 2.5D rendering method. Ray marching
P/OS, operating system of DEC Professional PCs from Digital Equipment Corporation; Packet over SONET/SDH, a communications protocol for transferring packets over fiber networks
Packet over SONET/SDH, abbreviated POS, is a communications protocol for transmitting packets in the form of the Point to Point Protocol (PPP) over SDH or SONET, which are both standard protocols for communicating digital information using lasers or light emitting diodes (LEDs) over optical fibre at high line rates. POS is defined by RFC 2615 ...
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See also References External links A Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) A dedicated video bus standard introduced by INTEL enabling 3D graphics capabilities; commonly present on an AGP slot on the motherboard. (Presently a historical expansion card standard, designed for attaching a video card to a computer's motherboard (and considered high-speed at launch, one of the last off-chip parallel ...