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Workstations

Of or pertaining to any computer intended for personal use, but with a much faster processor and more memory than an ordinary personal computer.

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XPath

Computer; Workstations

An addressing mechanism for identifying the parts of an XML document.

Write-update

Computer; Workstations

Write-update, also known as write-broadcast, maintains cache coherence by immediately updating all copies of a shared variable in all caches. This is a form of write-through because all writes go ...

JSP standard action

Computer; Workstations

An action that is defined in the JSP specification and is always available to a JSP page.

Double precision

Computer; Workstations

Using two words to represent a number in order to keep or increase precision. On SPARC? workstations, double precision is the 64-bit IEEE double precision.

Access control list (ACL)

Computer; Workstations

Access control list (ACL) provides greater control over file and folder permissions. ACL enables you to define file or folder permissions for the owner, owner's group, others, and specific users and ...

Gradual underflow

Computer; Workstations

When a floating-point operation underflows, return a subnormal number instead of 0. This method of handling underflow minimises the loss of accuracy in floating-point calculations on small numbers.

AC Fail

Computer; Workstations

An abnormal event related to the AC power supply, such as a power outage. Inconventional usage, it can refer to DC power supply systems as well.

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