short card
<hardware> A half-length IBM PC expansion card or adaptor that will fit
in one of the two short slots located toward the right rear of a standard
chassis (tucked behind the floppy disk drives).
See also: tall card.
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(1998-07-08)
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<language> (SHORTCODE) A pseudocode interpreter for mathematics problems,
designed by John Mauchly in 1949 to execute on Eckert and Mauchly's BINAC and
later on UNIVAC I and II. Short Code was possibly the first attempt at a high
level language.
[Sammet 1969, p. 129].
(1996-11-01)
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shortcut
<file system> Microsoft Corporation's term for a symbolic link, stored as
a file with extension ".lnk". Shortcuts first appeared in 1996 in the Windows 95
operating system. Windows shortcuts can link to any file or directory
("folder"), including those on remote computers, using UNC paths. Each shortcut
can also have its own icon. A shortcut that links to an executable file can pass
arguments and specify the directory in which the command should run. Unlike a
Unix symbolic link, a shortcut does not always behave exactly like the target
file or directory.
Compare pif.
(2001-12-18)
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<audio, compression> A form of lossless audio compression.
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shortest job first
<algorithm> A scheduling algorithm used in multitasking operating systems
that favours processes with the shortest estimated running time.
(1998-04-25)
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Short Message Service
<messaging> (SMS) A message service offered by the GSM digital cellular
telephone system.
Using SMS, a short alphanumeric message (160 alphanumeric characters) can be
sent to a mobile phone to be displayed there, much like in an alphanumeric pager
system. The message is buffered by the GSM network until the phone becomes
active.
(1996-02-18)
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