autobaud
automatic baud rate detection
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Austin Kyoto Common Lisp « authentication «
authoring «
autobaud » autobogotiphobia » AutoCAD » Autocode
autobogotiphobia
bogotify
Nearby terms:
authentication « authoring « autobaud «
autobogotiphobia
» AutoCAD » Autocode » AUTOCODER
AutoCAD
<CAD, product> A CAD software package for mechanical engineering,
marketed by Autodesk, Inc.
(1994-11-09)
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authoring « autobaud « autobogotiphobia « AutoCAD
» Autocode » AUTOCODER » autoconf
Autocode
<language> 1. The assembly language accepted by AUTOCODER.
2. A generic term for symbolic assembly language. Versions of Autocode were
developed for Ferranti Atlas, Titan, Mercury and Pegasus and IBM 702 and IBM
705.
(2001-05-14)
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autobaud « autobogotiphobia « AutoCAD « Autocode
» AUTOCODER » autoconf » autoconfiscate
AUTOCODER
<language> Possibly the first primitive compiler. AUTOCODER was written
by Alick E. Glennie in 1952. It translated symbolic statements into machine
language for the Manchester Mark I computer.
Autocoding later came to be a generic term for assembly language programming.
(1994-11-07)
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autobogotiphobia « AutoCAD « Autocode « AUTOCODER
» autoconf » autoconfiscate » Autodesk, Inc.
autoconf
<software, tool> The GNU project's tool that configures a source code
distribution to compile and run on a different platform.
Among open source hackers, a mere running binary of a program is not considered
a full release; what's interesting is a source tree that can be built into
binaries using standard tools. Since the mid-1990s, autoconf, automake, and
libtools have been the standard way to make a distribution portable so that it
can be built on multiple operating systems without change.
(2002-09-20)
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AutoCAD « Autocode « AUTOCODER « autoconf »
autoconfiscate » Autodesk, Inc. » AUTOEXEC.BAT
autoconfiscate
<software, jargon> A term coined by Noah Friedman meaning to set up or
modify a source-code distribution so that it configures and builds using the GNU
project's autoconf/automake/libtools suite.
(2002-09-20)
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Autocode « AUTOCODER « autoconf « autoconfiscate
» Autodesk, Inc. » AUTOEXEC.BAT » AUTOGRAF
Autodesk, Inc.
<company> The distributors of the AutoCAD CAD package.
Address: Sausalito, CA, USA.
(1994-11-09)
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AUTOCODER « autoconf « autoconfiscate « Autodesk,
Inc.
» AUTOEXEC.BAT » AUTOGRAF » AUTOGRP
AUTOEXEC.BAT
<operating system> The batch file containing commands, loaded by MS-DOS
after running CONFIG.SYS. AUTOEXEC.BAT contains normal DOS commands and can be
used for additional system configuration such as setting paths and variables,
configuring network connections and running application programs.
(1995-03-18)
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autoconf « autoconfiscate « Autodesk, Inc. «
AUTOEXEC.BAT
» AUTOGRAF » AUTOGRP » Auto Idle
AUTOGRAF
<tool> A system for describing bar charts.
["User's Manual for AUTOGRAF", Cambridge Computer Assoc, Dec 1972].
(2001-05-14)
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autoconfiscate « Autodesk, Inc. « AUTOEXEC.BAT «
AUTOGRAF
» AUTOGRP » Auto Idle » Autolisp
AUTOGRP
AUTOmated GRouPing system
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Autodesk, Inc. « AUTOEXEC.BAT « AUTOGRAF «
AUTOGRP » Auto Idle » Autolisp » autoloader
Auto Idle
A facility provided by some Intel clock doubled microprocessors where the
internal clock can be slowed to the external clock rate while the processor is
waiting for data from memory, returning to full speed as soon as the data
arrives.
See also System Management Mode.
(1994-11-09)
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AUTOEXEC.BAT « AUTOGRAF « AUTOGRP « Auto Idle
» Autolisp » autoloader » automagically
Autolisp
<language> A dialect of Lisp used by the Autocad CAD package from
Autodesk.
(1994-11-09)
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AUTOGRAF « AUTOGRP « Auto Idle « Autolisp »
autoloader » automagically » automata
autoloader
stack loader
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AUTOGRP « Auto Idle « Autolisp « autoloader »
automagically » automata » automata theory
automagically
<jargon> /aw-toh-maj'i-klee/ or /aw-toh-maj'i-k*l-ee/ Automatically, but
in a way that, for some reason (typically because it is too complicated, or too
ugly, or perhaps even too trivial), the speaker doesn't feel like explaining to
you.
E.g. "The C-INTERCAL compiler generates C, then automagically invokes cc to
produce an executable."
See magic.
[Jargon File]
(2001-05-18)
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Auto Idle « Autolisp « autoloader « automagically
» automata » automata theory » Automated Engineering
Design
automata
automaton
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Autolisp « autoloader « automagically « automata
» automata theory » Automated Engineering Design »
AUTOmated GRouPing system
automata theory
automaton
Nearby terms:
autoloader « automagically « automata « automata
theory
» Automated Engineering Design » AUTOmated GRouPing
system » Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation
Automated Engineering Design
<language> (AED) (Or "ALGOL Extended for Design") A systems language for
the IBM 7090 and IBM 360 developed at MIT System Laboratory ca. 1965 by a team
led by Douglas T. Ross (now at Softech). AED is an extension of ALGOL 60 with
records ("plexes"), pointers, and dynamic allocation. DYNAMO II was written in
AED, as was the first BCPL compiler.
Versions: AED-0, AED-1, AED-JR.
["The Automated Engineering Design (AED) Approach to Generalized Computer-Aided
Design", D.T. Ross, Proc ACM 22nd Natl Conf, 1967].
[Sammet 1969 and 1978].
(1995-03-26)
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automagically « automata « automata theory «
Automated Engineering Design » AUTOmated
GRouPing system » Automated Retroactive Minimal
Moderation » automated testing
AUTOmated GRouPing system
<tool, mathematics> (AUTOGRP) An interactive statistical analysis system,
an extension of CML.
["AUTOGRP: An Interactive Computer System for the Analysis of Health Care Data",
R.E. Mills et al, Medical Care 14(7), Jul 1976].
(1994-11-07)
Nearby terms:
automata « automata theory « Automated Engineering
Design «
AUTOmated GRouPing system » Automated
Retroactive Minimal Moderation » automated testing »
AUTOMATH
Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation
<messaging> (ARMM) A Usenet robot created by Dick Depew of Munroe Falls,
Ohio. ARMM was intended to automatically cancel posts from anonymous-posting
sites. Unfortunately, the robot's recogniser for anonymous postings triggered on
its own automatically-generated control messages! Transformed by this stroke of
programming ineptitude into a monster of Frankensteinian proportions, it broke
loose on the night of 1993-03-31 and proceeded to spam news.admin.policy with a
recursive explosion of over 200 messages.
Reactions varied from amusement to outrage. The pathological messages crashed at
least one mail system, and upset people paying line charges for their Usenet
feeds. One poster described the ARMM debacle as "instant Usenet history" (also
establishing the term despew), and it has since been widely cited as a
cautionary example of the havoc the combination of good intentions and
incompetence can wreak on a network.
Compare Great Worm; sorcerer's apprentice mode. See also software laser, network
meltdown.
(1996-01-08)
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automata theory « Automated Engineering Design «
AUTOmated GRouPing system « Automated Retroactive
Minimal Moderation » automated testing »
AUTOMATH » Automatically Programmed Tools
automated testing
<testing> Software testing assisted with software tools that require no
operator input, analysis, or evaluation.
(2001-05-20)
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Automated Engineering Design « AUTOmated GRouPing
system « Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation «
automated testing » AUTOMATH » Automatically
Programmed Tools » automatic baud rate detection
AUTOMATH
<language, mathematics> A very high level language for writing proofs,
from Eindhoven, Netherlands.
["The Mathematical Language AUTOMATH, Its Usage and Some of its Extensions",
N.G. deBruijn, in Symp on Automatic Demonstration, LNM 125, Springer 1970].
(2001-07-09)
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AUTOmated GRouPing system « Automated Retroactive
Minimal Moderation « automated testing « AUTOMATH
» Automatically Programmed Tools » automatic baud
rate detection » automatic hyphenation
Automatically Programmed Tools
<language> (APT) A language for numerically controlled machine tools.
Versions: APT II (IBM 704, 1958), APT III (IBM 7090, 1961).
["APT Part Programming", McGraw-Hill].
[Sammet 1969, p. 605].
(1995-05-04)
Nearby terms:
Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation « automated
testing « AUTOMATH « Automatically Programmed
Tools » automatic baud rate detection »
automatic hyphenation » Automatic Mathematical
TRANslation
automatic baud rate detection
<communications> (ABR, autobaud) A process by which a receiving device
determines the speed, code level, and stop bits of incoming data by examining
the first character, usually a preselected sign-on character. ABR allows the
receiving device to accept data from a variety of transmitting devices operating
at different speeds without needing to establish data rates in advance.
(1996-06-18)
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automated testing « AUTOMATH « Automatically
Programmed Tools « automatic baud rate detection
» automatic hyphenation » Automatic Mathematical
TRANslation » Automatic Network Routing
automatic hyphenation
<text> A feature of some word processors which can insert hyphens into
words which would otherwise extend beyond the right hand margin of the page.
More advanced word processors may have options to control the position of the
hyphen, to restrict certain words from being hyphenated, and to allow custom
dictionaries of hyphenation points to be built up.
(1996-08-02)
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AUTOMATH « Automatically Programmed Tools «
automatic baud rate detection « automatic
hyphenation » Automatic Mathematical TRANslation
» Automatic Network Routing » Automatic Number
Identification
Automatic Mathematical TRANslation
<mathematics, tool> (AMTRAN) A system developed by NASA in Huntsville in
1966 for the IBM 1620, based on the Culler-Fried System. It required a special
terminal.
["AMTRAN: An Interactive Computing System", J. Reinfelds, Proc FJCC 37:537- 542,
AFIPS (Fall 1970)].
(1995-11-14)
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Automatically Programmed Tools « automatic baud rate
detection « automatic hyphenation « Automatic
Mathematical TRANslation » Automatic Network
Routing » Automatic Number Identification »
Automatic Repeat Request
Automatic Network Routing
<protocol> (ANR) A source routing protocol used to route LU6.2 session
and control traffic from node to node through a High Performance Routing network
or subnet. ANR operates at the lower end of the SNA Path Control layer.
[Relationship to OS/390?]
(1997-05-08)
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automatic baud rate detection « automatic
hyphenation « Automatic Mathematical TRANslation «
Automatic Network Routing » Automatic Number
Identification » Automatic Repeat Request »
Automatic Send Receive
Automatic Number Identification
<communications> (ANI) A service that tells the recipient of a telephone
call the telephone number of the person making the call. This number can be
passed to computer equipment to automatically retrieve associated information
about the caller, i.e. account status, billing records, etc.
See CTI.
(1996-12-08)
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automatic hyphenation « Automatic Mathematical
TRANslation « Automatic Network Routing «
Automatic Number Identification » Automatic
Repeat Request » Automatic Send Receive » Automatic
Sequence Controlled Calculator
Automatic Repeat Request
<communications> (ARQ) A modem error control protocol in which the
receiver asks the transmitter to resend corrupted data.
(1995-11-14)
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Automatic Mathematical TRANslation « Automatic
Network Routing « Automatic Number Identification «
Automatic Repeat Request » Automatic Send
Receive » Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator »
automation
Automatic Send Receive
<hardware> (ASR) Part of a designation for a hard-copy terminal,
manufactured by Teletype Corporation, which could be commanded remotely to send
the contents of its paper tape reader. The ASR-33 was the most common
minicomputer terminal in the early 1970s.
(1995-11-23)
Nearby terms:
Automatic Network Routing « Automatic Number
Identification « Automatic Repeat Request «
Automatic Send Receive » Automatic Sequence
Controlled Calculator » automation » Automatische
Rechenplanfertigung
Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator
Mark 1
Nearby terms:
Automatic Number Identification « Automatic Repeat
Request « Automatic Send Receive « Automatic
Sequence Controlled Calculator » automation »
Automatische Rechenplanfertigung » automaton
automation
Automatic, as opposed to human, operation or control of a process, equipment or
a system; or the techniques and equipment used to achieve this. Most often
applied to computer (or at least electronic) control of a manufacturing process.
See also design automation, office automation, manularity, Manufacturing
Automation Protocol, PEARL, QBE.
(1994-10-21)
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Automatic Repeat Request « Automatic Send Receive «
Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator «
automation
» Automatische Rechenplanfertigung » automaton »
Automatrix, Inc.
Automatische Rechenplanfertigung
<language> A programming language published in 1952 by Heinz Rutishauser
(1918-70).
[Features?]
(2001-07-09)
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Automatic Send Receive « Automatic Sequence
Controlled Calculator « automation « Automatische
Rechenplanfertigung » automaton » Automatrix,
Inc. » Autonomous System
automaton
<robotics, mathematics, algorithm> (Plural automata) A machine, robot, or
formal system designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.
Automata theory, the invention and study of automata, includes the study of the
capabilities and limitations of computing processes, the manner in which systems
receive input, process it, and produce output, and the relationships between
behavioural theories and the operation and use of automated devices.
See also cellular automaton, finite state machine.
(1996-04-23)
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Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator «
automation « Automatische Rechenplanfertigung «
automaton » Automatrix, Inc. » Autonomous System
» Autonomous System Number
Automatrix, Inc.
<company> The company which produced CAM-PC.
Address: Ballston Spa, NY, USA.
Home.
(1995-04-21)
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automation « Automatische Rechenplanfertigung «
automaton «
Automatrix, Inc. » Autonomous System »
Autonomous System Number » Autopass
Autonomous System
<networking, routing> (AS) A collection of routers under a single
administrative authority, using a common Interior Gateway Protocol for routing
packets.
(2001-09-16)
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Automatische Rechenplanfertigung « automaton «
Automatrix, Inc. « Autonomous System »
Autonomous System Number » Autopass » autoprojector
Autonomous System Number
<networking, routing> (ASN) Used for routing on the Internet.
[Does each ASN uniquely identify an Autonomous System?]
(2001-09-16)
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automaton « Automatrix, Inc. « Autonomous System «
Autonomous System Number » Autopass »
autoprojector » AUTO-PROMPT
Autopass
<programming>
["Autopass: An Automatic Programming System for Computer-Controlled Mechanical
Assembly", L.I. Lieberman et al, IBM J Res Dev 21(4):321-333, 1979].
(2001-09-16)
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Automatrix, Inc. « Autonomous System « Autonomous
System Number « Autopass » autoprojector »
AUTO-PROMPT » Autostat
autoprojector
<theory> A self-applicable partial evaluator.
(2001-09-16)
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Autonomous System « Autonomous System Number «
Autopass «
autoprojector » AUTO-PROMPT » Autostat »
autostereogram
AUTO-PROMPT
<language> A numerical control language from IBM for 3D milling.
[Sammet 1969, p.606].
(2001-09-25)
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Autonomous System Number « Autopass « autoprojector
«
AUTO-PROMPT » Autostat » autostereogram » A/UX
Autostat
<language> A language for statistical programming.
["Autostat: A Language for Statistical Programming", A.S. Douglas et al,
Computer J 3:61, 1960].
(2001-09-25)
Nearby terms:
Autopass « autoprojector « AUTO-PROMPT « Autostat
» autostereogram » A/UX » auxiliary storage
autostereogram
SIRDS
Nearby terms:
autoprojector « AUTO-PROMPT « Autostat «
autostereogram
» A/UX » auxiliary storage » av
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