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

 

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