Operating systems

Operating systems

Software that handles the basic functionality of hardware.

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Decompress

Computer; Operating systems

To restore the contents of a compressed file to its original form.

Database development life cycle

A structured process that is imposed upon the development of the database portion of an application. It is essentially a subset of the software development life cycle that is specific to one or more ...

Communication channel

Computer; Operating systems

A medium for transferring information. Depending on its type, a communications channel can carry information (data, sound, and/or video) in either analogue or digital form. A communications channel ...

Delegate

Computer; Operating systems

A type that references a method. Once a delegate is assigned a method, it behaves exactly like that method. Delegates are roughly similar to function pointers in C++; however, they are type-safe and ...

Status message property value

Computer; Operating systems

An optional attribute of a status message property that is applied by the SMS component that generates the message. Status message properties let you differentiate messages associated with particular ...

Locale identifier

Computer; Operating systems

A 32-bit value which consists of the language ID in the low word (bits 0-15) and the sorting ID (bits 16-19) and a reserved value (bits 20-31) in the high word.