Dongle

Dongle

1. A connector that attaches a conduit (such as a phone line or Ethernet cable) to a PCMCIA card.

2. A hardware attachment that authorises a computer system to run a particular application.

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Industry/Domain: Software
Category: Operating systems
Company: Red Hat
Product: Red Hat Linux 9
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