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Blown to Bits Vocab4
Blown to Bits Vocab Chapter 4 for Mobile CSP
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Background | multitasking computers are capable of executing several tasks, or programs, at the same time |
| Binary | pertaining to a number system that has just two unique digits |
| Bot | short for robot, a computer program that runs automatically. |
| Cache | a special high-speed storage mechanism |
| Firewall | Software used to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network |
| HTML | hypertext markup language, a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages |
| URL | abbreviation of uniform resource locator it is the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web |
| Foreground | in multiprocessing systems, the process that is currently accepting input from the keyboard or other input device |