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En-finger Interface N. The Interface Between Two Networks That Cannot Be Directly Connected For Security Reaso
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ten-finger interface n.
The interface between two networks
that cannot be directly connected for security reasons; refers to
the practice of placing two terminals side by side and having an
operator read from one and type into the other.
Related:
en-finger interface: n. The interface between two networks that cannot be directly connected for security reaso
efers to the practice of placing two terminals side by side and having an operator read from one and type into the other....
WAITS /wayts/ n. The mutant cousin of TOPS-10 used on a handful of systems at SAIL up to 1990.
There was never an `official' expansion of WAITS (the name itself having been arrived at by a rather sideways process), but it was frequently glossed as `West-coast Alternative to ITS'....
WAITS:: /wayts/ n. The mutant cousin of {{TOPS-10}} used on a handful of systems at {{SAIL}} up to 1990.
There was never an `official' expansion of WAITS (the name itself having been arrived at by a rather sideways process), but it was frequently glossed as `West-coast Alternative to ITS'....
gopher n. A type of Internet service first floated around 1991 and obsolesced around 1995 by the World Wide Web.
Gopher presents a menuing interface to a tree or graph of link...
and remember you're a Man, not just god, and for you there aren't and never will be any easy answe
only questions, and no reasons, only causes, and no meaning, only intelligence, and no destination and no kindly magic smiling down from above, and no fires to goad you from below, only Yourself and the Universe and what you make out of the interface between the two equals....
Multiple choice test: WHAT IS FORTRAN? [a] between thre and fiv tran.
[b] what two computers engage in before interface. [c] ridiculous....
It's multiple choice time... What is FORTRAN? a
Between thre and fiv tran. b: What two computers engage in before they interface. c: Ridiculous....
deadlock n. 1. [techspeak] A situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something.
A common example is a program communicating to a server, which may find itself waiting for output from the server before sending anything more to it, while the server is similarly waiting for more input from the controlling program before outputting anything....
deadlock: n. 1. [techspeak] A situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something.
A common example is a program communicating to a server, which may find itself waiting for output from the server before sending anything more to it, while the server is similarly waiting for more input from the controlling program before outputting anything....