www |
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www |
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Abbreviation
for world wide web
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W.A.I.S |
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W.A.I.S. |
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Abbrev for wide area info
system. A
service designed to locate info in a wide area of locations. Typically wide
area network
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Wait
list |
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Warteliste |
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A list of
processes that are
waiting completion of some activity before they can run on the processor.
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Walk
through |
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Durchdenken eines Problems |
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Product service run by a formal
team. Usually during product lifespan a team will review all specifications
eg. program specifications
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Wand |
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Strichcodeleser |
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A small hand held device
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Warping |
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Verumstalten/ Verändern
(graphisch) |
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Distorting an image or texture to
achieve some designed effect
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Whirlwind |
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Wirbelwind |
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The first real time computer built
in the U.S.A. Capable of calculating at high speed
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White
board |
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Whiteboard |
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(Electronic
blackboard) A common
area between application and users in which mutual information is stored
that all can access
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Whois |
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Whois |
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An online directory service
relating primarily to people responding for administering, managing and
operating networks and for network accessible services
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Whole
number |
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Ganze Zahl |
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A number that is not fractional.
It is an integer or a member of some set of the integers such as the
natural numbers.
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Wide
area network(W.A.N) |
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W.A.N. |
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A network with
communications often
very large run by a single organisation.
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Wlldcard |
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Platzhalter |
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A character that can stand for a
number of different characters.
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Wimp |
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Schnittstelle (software S.) |
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Acronym for
windows icons menus pointers. An informal term used to identify the main
advantages claimed for a windows system
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Windows |
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Windows |
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A graphical user interface
developed by Microsoft for the intel family of microprocessors.
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Word |
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Word |
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A major word processing systems
developed over many years by the Microsoft corporation. There are versions
for windows ms-dos and Macintosh.
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Write
instructions |
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Eingabeaufforderung |
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A program instruction that causes
an item of data to be recorded in some kind of storage
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Write
protect |
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Schreibschutz |
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To
prevent a disk drive from
writing to a disk.
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