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H Glossary of Terms
NUMBERS
10BASE-T
10BASE-T is Ethernet over UTP Category III, IV, or
V unshielded twisted-pair media.
100BASE-TX
The two-pair twisted-media implementation of
100BASE-T is called 100BASE-TX.
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Applet
Applets are small Java programs that can be embedded
in an HTML page. The rule at the moment is that an
applet can only make an Internet connection to the
computer form that the applet was sent.
ASCII
American Standard Code For Information Interchange,
it is the standard method for encoding characters as 8-
b
it sequences of binary numbers, allowing a maximum
of 256 characters.
ARP
Address Resolution Protocol. ARP is a protocol that
resides at the TCP/IP Internet layer that delivers data
on the same network by translating an IP address to a
physical address.
AVI
Audio Video Interleave, it is a Windows platform
audio and video file type, a common format for small
movies and videos.