A navigational database is a type of database in which records or objects are found primarily by following references from other objects. Navigational interfaces are usually procedural, though some mo ...
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a switching technique for telecommunication networks. It uses asynchronous time-division multiplexing and encodes data into small, fixed-sized cells. This differs f ...
See also: History of the InternetToday, computer networks are the core of modern communication. All modern aspects of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) are computer-controlled. Telephony in ...
Paper data storage, typically in the form of paper tape or punched cards, has long been used to store information for automatic processing, particularly before general-purpose computers existed. Infor ...
Without a significant amount of memory, a computer would merely be able to perform fixed operations and immediately output the result. It would have to be reconfigured to change its behavior. This is ...
In the early 1940s, memory technology mostly permitted a capacity of a few bytes. The first electronic programmable digital computer, the ENIAC, using thousands of octal-base radio vacuum tubes, could ...
Another strategy of achieving performance is to execute multiple programs or threads in parallel. This area of research is known as parallel computing. In Flynn's taxonomy, this strategy is known as M ...
The clock rate is the speed at which a microprocessor executes instructions. Every computer contains an internal clock that regulates the rate at which instructions are executed and synchronizes all t ...
Main article: History of general purpose CPUsEDVAC, one of the first stored program computers.Computers such as the ENIAC had to be physically rewired to perform different tasks, which caused these ma ...
API in procedural languages In most procedural languages, an API specifies a set of functions or routines that accomplish a specific task or are allowed to interact with a specific software component. ...
A wire protocol provides the means for interoperation of one or more applications in a network. They often refer to distributed object protocols, or they use applications that were designed to work to ...
In information technology, an application is a computer program designed to help people perform an activity. An application thus differs from an operating system (which runs a computer), a utility (wh ...
Electronic mail has several English spelling options that occasionally are the cause of vehement disagreement.e-mail is the most common form, according to Corpus of Contemporary American English data, ...
Main article: Oracle v. GoogleOn August 12, 2010, Oracle announced a lawsuit against Google concerning patent and copyright infringement of Java in Google's development of Android. Oracle claimed that ...
1979: offers the first commercial SQL RDBMS1983: offers a VAX-mode database1984: offers the first database with read-consistency1986: offers a client-server DBMS1987: introduces UNIX-based Oracle appl ...
