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| MAPI
messaging
application
programming interface |
| An
API developed by Microsoft and other computer vendors that
provides Windows applications with an implementation-independent
interface to various messaging systems such as
Microsoft
Mail, Novell's MHS, and IBM's PROFS A subset of MAPI known as
Simple MAPIlets developers easily create "mail-aware"
applications
capable of exchanging messages and data files with other network
clients. |
| OS
Operating system |
| The
program that manages the resources of a computer, such as the
input/output devices, the memory and the storage and retrieval of
files. |
| OS/2
Operating System 2 |
| The
operating system introduced with the IBM PS/2 series of computers,
and also available from IBM to run on other PC-compatibles |
| OSF |
| Supported
by computer companies such as DEC and IBM, the OSF produces
software to run under the Unix operating system. |
| OSI
Open systems interconnection
|
| An
internationally agreed standard which defines a system of
interconnection whereby different computers or devices may communicate.
OSI covers seven areas from the hardware
specification to the
information itself |
| PC
DOS Personal computer disk operating
system |
| IBM's
version of Microsoft's MSDos |
| GUI |
| Graphical
User Interface |
| Multitasking |
Multitasking
is
an operating system feature that allows several programs to
appear
to be operating at the same time. Actually a scheduling
program
periodically switches between the two or more programs, giving
each a measured portion of time (time slice) to use the CPU.
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| DDE
Dynamic Data Exchange
|
| A
mechanism used in Windows to transfer data between two applications
or two separate instances of the same application. Windows itself uses
DDE for a variety of purposes, from opening documents in running
applications when a document icon is double-clicked in the shell to
obtaining program icons for DOS applications. DDE is also used
to
support OLE |
| Macro |
| A
macro is a
stored set of commands or instructions invoked by a single
command
or instruction. One example is a keyboard macro. If you discover a
sequence of keystrokes that are used over and over, a macro can be
created which contains those keystrokes. It can then be invoked later,
often with a single keystroke, to save time and possible
errors. As another example, a spreadsheet. macro is a set of
instructions written into the worksheet that, upon
execution, performs a series of spreadsheet operations in a
previously specified order. The steps necessary to copy the
values
in one row to another row could be stored in a macro, then executed
with a single keystroke. |
| ASCII
American Standard Code for
Information Interchange |
| A
standard developed by the American National Standards
Institute
(ANSI) describing how characters can be represented on a computer. The
ASCII character set consists of 128 characters numbered from 0
to
127 and includes numerals, punctuation symbols, letters, and special
control codes such as end-of-line characters. The letter A,
for
example, is represented by the number 65. |
| AIX
advanced Interactive eXecutive
|
| IBM's
version of Unix. AIX's power and flexibility has won it many friends
all over the Unix world. |
| MCL
Microsoft Compatibility Labs |
| Staff
here check for compatibility between any Microsoft applications
or operating systems and third-party software, and then introduce
incompatibility to keep a competitive advantage |
| DLL
dynamic link library
|
| A
special type of
Windows program containing functions that other programs can call,
resources (such as icons) that other programs
can use, or both. Unlike a standard programming library, whose
functions are linked into an application when the
application's
code is compiled, an application that uses functions in a DLL links
with those functions at runtime |
| DDE
Dynamic Data Exchange
|
| A
mechanism used in Windows
to transfer data between two applications or two separate instances of
the same application. Windows itself uses DDE for a variety of
purposes, from opening documents in running applications when a
document icon is double-clicked in the shell to obtaining program icons
for DOS applications. DDE is also used to support OLE |
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