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1.  An interactive dialect of PL/I, related to CPS, dated about 1966. The name is the abbreviation of “Remote ...

run-time system

1. Not simulated. Often used as a specific antonym to virtual in any of its jargon senses. 2. real number. ...

(OS) The low-level software which handles the interface to peripheral hardware, schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default interface to the user when no application ...

(NWNET) Kochmer, J., and NorthWestNet, “The Internet Passport: NorthWestNets Guide to Our World Online”, NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA, 1992.

1. In reduction systems, the state of a term which contains no reducible expressions. Variants include head normal form, weak head ...

An early possible name for PL/I. [Sammet 1969, p. 542].

The pre-release “code name” for Intel’s Pentium II microprocessor.

JAM Programming Language. Imperative string-based language, part of the JAM tool for developing screen (non-window) applications. JYACC Corporation

(JFIF) The technical name for the file format better known as JPEG. This term is used only when the ...