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| ADSL |
(Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) ADSL is the most widely deployed form of DSL technology. Most homes and small businesses currently using DSL technology use ADSL. |
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| AGP |
(Accelerated Graphics Port) A high-speed graphics port from Intel that provides a direct connection between the display adapter and memory. AGP is faster than PCI, and only one AGP slot is provided on AGP-equipped motherboards. The PCI slot that would normally hold the display adapter can be used for another device. The brown AGP slot is slightly shorter than the white PCI slot and is located about an inch farther back. |
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| ASCII |
(American Standard Code for Information Interchange) Pronounced "ask-ee." A binary code for text as well as communications and printer control. It is used for most communications and is the built-in character code in most minicomputers and all personal computers. |
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| ASP |
(Active Server Page) A Web server technology from Microsoft that allows for the creation of dynamic, interactive sessions with the user. An ASP is a Web page that contains HTML and embedded programming code written in VBScript or Jscript. It was introduced with Version 3.0 of Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS). When IIS encounters an ASP page requested by the browser, it executes the embedded program. ASPs are Microsoft's alternative to CGI scripts and JavaServer Pages (JSPs), which allow Web pages to interact with databases and other programs. Third party products add ASP capability to non-Microsoft Web servers. The Active Server Page technology is an ISAPI program and ASP documents use an .ASP extension. |
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