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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to RS-232 and DE-9 connectors. How to Interface Hardware in COM ports at the Wayback Machine (archived 2017-09-13)...
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  • Look up COM, com, or com' in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Com or COM may refer to: COM (hardware interface), a serial port interface on IBM PC-compatible...
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    abstraction. Interface compatibility depends on the target hardware and the software build toolchain. In contrast, an application programming interface (API)...
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    network interface) is a computer hardware component that connects a computer to a computer network. Early network interface controllers were commonly implemented...
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  • (provided as hardware or as software) that converts internal to external network addresses and vice versa. Residential gateway: interface between a WAN...
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    driver provides a software interface to hardware devices, enabling operating systems and other computer programs to access hardware functions without needing...
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  • Hardware abstractions are sets of routines in software that provide programs with access to hardware resources through programming interfaces. The programming...
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  • standardized interface and protocol allows systems-management software based on IPMI to manage multiple, disparate servers. As a message-based, hardware-level...
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    Virtual artifact Virtual user interface "Eurotherm Parker SSD Link Hardware L5392 | Automation Industrial". l5392.com. Retrieved 11 January 2024. Cohen...
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  • Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) is a technical standard defined by Intel that specifies the register-level interface of Serial ATA (SATA) host...
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    A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual...
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  • Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) is an open standard that operating systems can use to discover and configure computer hardware components, to perform...
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  • Power Interface (ACPI) to determine the device's state when entering sleep mode in order to restore that state when exiting sleep mode. The hardware registers...
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  • access points, network interface cards and other related hardware. This is a list of notable vendors who produce network hardware. ADTRAN Aerohive Networks...
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  • of the Windows interface, with the introduction of a new visual style with an emphasis on animation, glass, and translucency; interface guidelines for...
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  • resemble the hardware from the old G3 iMacs and Power Macs. "Aqua Interface to be updated?". "An Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal Interface Theme Shows...
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  • Firewire Host Controller Interface (UFHC) is a register-level interface that enables a host controller for USB or IEEE 1394 hardware to communicate with a...
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    manipulation interface Douglas Engelbart's On-Line System Graphical user interface Text-based user interface History of computing hardware History of computer...
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  • underlying complexity of the NIC hardware and serves as a standard interface for level 3 network protocol drivers and hardware level MAC drivers. The NDIS...
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  • Objective Interface Systems, Inc. is a computer communications software and hardware company. The company's headquarters are in Herndon, Virginia, USA...
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  • The Telephony Application Programming Interface (TAPI) is a Microsoft Windows API, which provides computer telephony integration and enables PCs running...
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  • between the hardware and end user. The front is an abstraction, simplifying the underlying component by providing a user-friendly interface, while the...
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  • "application programming interface." Today, the term is broader, including also utility software and even hardware interfaces. The idea of the API is much...
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  • Arbitrary choice of message size, content, and purpose Simple hardware and interfacing Hardware implementation for slaves only requires a selectable shift...
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  • OPOS (category Microsoft application programming interfaces)
    abstract hardware interface while allowing the application to work with a variety of different hardware. The only requirement is that a hardware vendor...
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  • responsible for providing an abstract interface to the hardware the system ran on. Applications used the system call interface, or performed file I/O on device...
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    BIOS (section User interface)
    systems. The interface of that original system serves as a de facto standard. The BIOS in older PCs initializes and tests the system hardware components...
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  • Distributed Interface (INDI) is a distributed control system (DCS) protocol to enable control, data acquisition and exchange among hardware devices and...
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  • can interface with Universal Windows Platform apps or Hardware Support Apps (HSA). The goal was to separate the core driver from the interfacing app....
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  • Video Acceleration API (category Application programming interfaces)
    source application programming interface that allows applications such as VLC media player or GStreamer to use hardware video acceleration capabilities...
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