- Industry: Computer
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An American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing.
A form of information processing in which work is performed by separate computers linked through a communications network. Distributed processing is usually categorized as either plain distributed processing or true distributed processing. Plain distributed processing shares the workload among computers that can communicate with one another. True distributed processing has separate computers perform different tasks in such a way that their combined work can contribute to a larger goal. The latter type of processing requires a highly structured environment that allows hardware and software to communicate, share resources, and exchange information freely.
Industry:Software
In regular expressions, a short name for a character class. Valid dsw character escapes are d, D, s, S, w, and W.
Industry:Software
The process of delegating a task if the user has not acted on the task in the alloted time frame.
Industry:Software
A collection of information that is stored on a computer under a single name.
Industry:Software
