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1. MAPI (Messaging and Application Programs Interface)
Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) is a messaging architecture and a Component Object Model based API for Microsoft Windows. MAPI allows client programs to become (e-mail) messaging-enabled, -aware, or -based by calling MAPI subsystem routines that interface with certain messaging servers.
2. MIME (Multiuse Internet Mail Extension )
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an internet standard that extends the format of email to support:
- Text in character set other than ASCII
- Non-text attachments: audio, video, images, application programs etc.
- Message bodies with multiple parts
- Header information in non-ASCII character sets
Virtually all human-written Internet email and a fairly large proportion of automated email is transmitted via SMTP in MIME format.
3. MIS (Management Information System)
An organized collection of people, procedures, and devices used to provide the right information to the right person at the right time for proper decision-making.
4. MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition)
A technology used by banking industry for faster processing of large volume of cheques. This technology also ensures accuracy of data entry, because most information on the cheque is pre-printed and fed to the computer directly.
5. MIS (Management Information System)
An organized collection of people, procedures, and devices used to provide the right information to the right person at the right time for proper decision-making.
5. MSI (Medium Scale Integration)
A circuit with about 100 transistors fabricated on a single chip.
6. MAR (Memory Address Register) A register that holds address of the active memory location and -is loaded from program control register when an instruction is read from memory.
7. MBR (Memory Buffer Register)
A register that holds contents of the memory word read from, or written in, memory.
8. Memory dump
Contents of memory duplicated on another storage device or printed on a printer.
9. MIPS
Millions of Instructions Per Second.
10. MTNL
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited
11. MAINFRAME SYSTEMS
There are several organizations such as banks, insurance companies, hospitals, railways, etc., that need on-line processing of large number of transactions, and require computer systems having massive data storage and processing capabilities. Mainframe systems are computer systems that are mainly used for handling .data processing needs of mid to large size organizations. They are also used in such environments where a large number of users need to share a common computing facility such as in research groups, educational institutions, engineering firms, etc.
12. MCI (Multimedia Command Interface)
A method for controlling multimedia devices from within the Windows operating system.
13. MMX (Multimedia extensions)
A technology which is featured in a number of the latest processors designed mainly for multi media applications. To benefit form MMX the application running must have been written to take advantage of MMX technology.
14. MPEG (Moving Picture experts Group)
A standard used on the World Wide Web for video and audio files compression techniques are used which enables the files to be transmitted across the internet significance quicker than other audio and video files. The web browser you are using must be capable of running MPEG files.
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1. NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol)
A protocol used mainly to run a bulletin board service used by Newsgroups worldwide.
2. Netscape (Netscape Communications or Netscape Navigator)
Netscape is one of the two most popular Web browsers and also the name of a company, Netscape Communications, now owned by America Online (AOL). Currently, almost all Internet users use either Netscape’s browser or Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser and many users use both. Although Netscape was initially the predominant product in terms of usability and number of users, Microsoft’s browser is now considered superior by many users. Netscapes browser originally was called “Navigator” and is still called that in the suite of software, Communicator, of which it is now a part. Navigator was developed in 1995 by a team led by Marc Andreessen, who created Mosaic, the first Web browser that had a graphical user interface, at the University of Illinois National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), 1993.
3. Netiquette
Netiquette means an accepted behavior on the network during e-mail, Usenet or chat.
4. Null Modem
A cable that eliminates the need for a modem when transferring data between two computers located near each other.
