All visitors are logged and counted. Click on this icon to view the visitor-statistics. The grand encyclopedia of computer terminology This encyclopedia is compiled by produkties.uithuizen.net This explains the most common computerterms which you can encounter. This list was compiled from several sources. It does not explain HTML commands in detail because for this purpose another encyclopedia is available.The most recent update of this document can be found at: http://www.uithuizen.net/encyclopedia/terms.php Choose a list of terms you want to see .A-.Z   0-9   A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L    M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   X   Y   Z Type a term you want to search for: and You want more information? Well click on these links: Random House Personal Computer Dictionary r      RA   RUSTY 118 items available in this category RA Known spyware or adware. Radio frequency identification RFID tags are the successors of the barcode. The chip can contain data which it can exchange wireless with a network through an antenna. RAM Acronym for Random Access Memory RANDEX.AT Known spyware or adware. RANDEX.AW Known spyware or adware. RANDEX.AX Known spyware or adware. RANDEX.AZ Known spyware or adware. RANDEX.BD Known spyware or adware. RANDEX.BE Known spyware or adware. RANDEX.C Known spyware or adware. RANDEX.D Known spyware or adware. RANDEX.E Known spyware or adware. RANDEX.F Known spyware or adware. RANDEX.FC Known spyware or adware. RANDEX.G Known spyware or adware. RANDEX.H Known spyware or adware. RANDEX.J Known spyware or adware. RANDEX.P Known spyware or adware. RANDEX.Q Known spyware or adware. RANDEX.S Known spyware or adware. RANDEX.Y Known spyware or adware. RANDEX.Z Known spyware or adware. Random Access Memory That part of the memory to which the user has access. In this part data and files are stored during the time the computer is switched on. See also DRAM, SRAM. RANDON-R Known spyware or adware. range A continuous series of values (minimum to maximum; first to last). RapidBlaster Known spyware or adware. RARP Acronym for Reverse Address Resolution protocol. RAS 1) Acronym for Reader Admission System. 2) Acronym for Random Access Storage. raster A fixed pattern of dots (pixels). raster image format An image format that breaks an image into pixels and records information for each pixel. It has disadvantages: it is not scaleable without distortion, and it produces rather large files. The number of colors that a file can contain is determined by the bits per pixel. Examples are: .BMP, .CLP, .CUT, .DIB, .EPS, .GIF, .IFF, .IMG, .JIF, .JPG, .LBM, .MAC, .MSP, .PBM, .PCD, .PCX, .PGM, .PIC, .PNG, .PPM, .PSD, .RAS, .RAW, .RLE, .TGA, .TIF(F), .WPG. Raster picture A raster picture is a picture that is displayed by defining rows of colored dots that are placed next to each other. Each dot is assigned an individual color. RATEGA Known spyware or adware. RATSOU Known spyware or adware. RATSOU.B Known spyware or adware. RATSU.B Known spyware or adware. RBot Known spyware or adware. RC Acronym for Release Candidate RDP Acronym for Remote Desktop Protocol. RDS Acronym for Relational Data System. The term in IBM manuals called RDS came from the original System R implementation. It encompasses the precompiler, the bind, and the run-time supervisor. RdxIE Known spyware or adware. Read Only Memory Basic Input/Output System The basic I/O system of an IBM PC, which comes in a ROM chip on the mother board and provides direct control for the hardware devices. Read-Only Memory That part of the memory that is read only. real address Same as absolute address. reboot See boot. RECERV Known spyware or adware. RECORY Known spyware or adware. Red Swoosh Known spyware or adware. RedHotNetworks Known spyware or adware. REDIST Known spyware or adware. REDIST.B Known spyware or adware. REDIST.C Known spyware or adware. REDLOF.M Known spyware or adware. Reduced-Instruction-Set Computer A computer with a relatively simple load-and-store instruction set and only register-to-register operate instructions. Typical RISC machines have large register sets, multiple functional units and pipelined instruction and execution units. See also CISC RedV Protector Suite Known spyware or adware. REDZED Known spyware or adware. refresh rate 1) the vertical frequency in Hz, the number of times/second that the information on the screen is refreshed with new information. 2) The number of times per second active memory chips must be reenergized to maintain the data they´re keeping. Related Site Search (BrowserAid) Known spyware or adware. RelatedLinks Known spyware or adware. relational database A database that contains cross-referenced entries. Each entry is described by several different traits, so you can search for groupings of these characteristics using Boolean operators. relative address An address specified by indicating its distance from another address, called the base address. For example, a relative address might be B+15, B being the base address and 15 the distance (called the offset). Opposite of absolute address. release candidate Normal release candidates are beta versions that are as good as finished. At the worst only a few errors will be removed from it but there will be no changes in functionality or the appearance. Release To Manufacturing Usually in combination with a date this term means the moment that the product goes into production. This is not the moment that the product is available to the end-user, since the production takes some time. Release To Web The same as Release To Manufacturing with the difference that the product now was made available on Internet. Therefore the date is the moment that the product is really available to the end-user. REMABL Known spyware or adware. Remanent Known spyware or adware. Remote Desktop Protocol A protocol that lets users create a virtual session on their desktop computers. It allows remote users to access all the data and applications on their computers. remote host A host you access via Telnet, FTP, or a search engine such as Gopher or WAIS (so its distant). RemPSteal Known spyware or adware. REPAD Known spyware or adware. REPEATLD Known spyware or adware. replication After a virus successfully infects a PC it usually wants to copy itself -- to replicate itself. It tries to infect either different parts of your system, or other systems, usually through address books or shared network files. reply The process of answering a received message. REPROM Acronym for REProgrammable Read Only Memory. Request permission To Send One of the handshake signals generated by a universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter (UART) to inform the attached device that the UART has data it is ready to transmit. resident A program is resident when it is continuously available in the memory. See TSR. resolution The amount of pixels per inch (DPI) of a printer, screen or a picture. The higher the better. The higher the resolution of a picture, the more precise and clear the picture is. However, when you increase the resolution, the file size of a picture also increases. RETSAM Known spyware or adware. reverse The same as invert. Reverse |LAddress ResolutionL| |LprotocolL| A low level Internet protocol used by diskless machines to obtain an IP address from a server over a physical network. An alternative to this scheme is BOOTP. Revop Known spyware or adware. RF Acronym for Radio Frequency. RFC Acronym for Request For Comment. RFID Acronym for Radio frequency identification. RFS Acronym for Radio Frequency Signaling. RFTray Known spyware or adware. RGB Acronym for Red-Green-Blue; The color specification mechanism normally used in computer displays, where colors are separated into their primary-color components. See also YUV,CMYK. RIFF Acronym for Resource Interchange File Format. Microsoft has created a basic file structure for most of the file types used with Windows. This makes it easier to use different formats simultaneously. Riler Known spyware or adware. RIOSYS Known spyware or adware. RIP Acronym for Routing Information protocol RIPJAC Known spyware or adware. RISC Acronym for Reduced-Instruction-Set Computer. RLE Acronym for Run-Length Encoding. RLL Acronym for Run-Length Limited. RNG Acronym for Random Number Generator. RoadRunner Known spyware or adware. Roings Known spyware or adware. ROM Acronym for Read-Only Memory. ROM BIOS Acronym for Read Only Memory Basic Input/Output System. RONOPER-G Known spyware or adware. ROTARRAN Known spyware or adware. route The series of connections that a package of information passes going from the transmitting computer to the receiving computer. router A special-purpose computer (or software package) that handles the connection between 2 or more networks. Routers spend all their time looking at the destination addresses of the packets passing through them and deciding which route to send them on. Routing Information protocol This protocol is used by XNS routers to maintain routing tables in an internetwork. rpm Acronym for Rotations Per Minute. For example used to indicate the rotation speed of a harddisk. RPROM Acronym for ReProgrammable Read Only Memory. RS-232C The RS-232C is a standard for datacommunication via a serial port published in 1969 by the EIA. The RS is an acronym for Recommended Standard and the 232 is the identification number for that particular standard. RSA Acronym for Rivest-Shamir-Adleman. The designers of a security/encryption protocol that uses public and private keys. RSBOT Known spyware or adware. RSS Acronym for RDF Site Summary - formerly called Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication is a special application of the XML-language on the Internet. Originally it was developed by Netscape for its browser´s Netcenter channels, but now it is available for anyone. RTC Acronym for Real-Time Clock. RTF Acronym for Rich Text Format. RTM Acronym for Release To Manufacturing. RTS Acronym for Request permission To Send. RTW Acronym for Release To Web. Run-Length Limited A method of encoding data as a series of magnetic flux reversals on disk or tape. RLL can achieve higher data densities than MFM recording because it encodes the data such that (on average), fewer than one flux reversal per data bit is required (however, timing becomes more critical). RLL is actually an entire family of encoding methods, specified with two numbers indicating the minimum and maximum distances between one bit (flux transitions). The variant normally called RLL is RLL-2,7; RLL-1,7 and RLL-3,9 are also in use. MFM is in effect RLL-1,3. See also FM, MFM. Russian Searchbar Known spyware or adware. RUSTY Known spyware or adware. This encyclopedia is for informational purposes only. All (registered) trademarks mentioned are property of their respective owners. No infringement of third party rights intended. The author cannot garantuee that the information presented is complete or that it contains no errors.