| G AC
| Graphics Accelerator
Card (hardware designed to speed up graphics display on the
monitor; very fast GACs are useful for advanced designs as well as
computer games with complex graphics)
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| .gam
| Gamma file extension (Target
Gamma, for example, is used to calibrate the color brightness and
contrast of an image for display on a monitor).
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| GA
Netwatch
| Gardian Angels Netwatch (Group
founded by New York radio talk show host Curtis Silva)
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| Gateway
| Device that connects and transfers
information between two PCs
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| GB
| Gigabyte (1000 * 1024 * 1024 =
104,857,600 bytes) or 1000 MB [Megabyte];
also see TB [TeraByte].
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| GCR
| Group Coded Recording
(Information storage system where single bytes are assembled into groups
and each group has a code by which it is then stored on the disk (used in
RLL--Run Length Limited drives).
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| GDI
| Graphics Device (Data/
Display) Interface (connects the DDI [Device
Driver Interface] and the HD [Hard
Drive] in a graphics accelerator card)
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| GET
| HTTP GET request sent by browser to IP
address to load a file from a Web server.
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| GIF
| (1) Graphic Interchange
Format (.gif file extension; popular Internet graphic file
format developed by CompuServe).
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| .gif
| (2) Graphic Interface
File (.gif file extension).
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| Gigabyte
| One Gig equals 1,000
Megabytes or 1000 * 1024 * 1024 = 104,857,600
digital bytes
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| GII
| Global Information
Infrastructure
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| GIS
| Geographical Information
System (NIS [Network Information
Services] Server).
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| #--GL
| 3rd, 5th etc...Generation
Language (stages in the development of a programming
language)
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| GM
| General MIDI [Musical
Instrument Digital Interface].
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| GMR
| Giant Magnetoresistive
effect (Data storage technology that can resist magnetic field damaging
effect)
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| GMTA
| Great minds think
alike (E-mail acronym to speed up electronic mail message
writing)
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| GND
| Ground (for PC power
supply; also see ESD [Electros tatic
Discharge])
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| GOPHER
| Not an acronym; named after the rodent.
Gopher is a University of Minnesota distributed document search and
retrieval system (virtually anyone with an Internet account can use
Gopher).
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| GPF
| General Protection Fault
(Generally indicates memory problems, such as, memory shortages and memory
conflicts. Sometimes, GPFs are caused by corrupted files).
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| GPRS
| General Packet Radio
Service (Packet-data technology to send and receive data at
throughput up to 56 kbps)
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| GPS
| Global Positioning
System Intelligent Sensor receives data from earth-orbiting
satellites and indicates your location to within 50 or less meters.
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| .grp
| Group file extension (programs
with different utilities or applications are stored in .GRP files in
Windows' Program Manager).
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| GSM
| Global System for Mobile
communication (The European standard for wireless computer-based services
(GSM is based on TDMA [Time-division
multiple access]).
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| GSNW
| Gateway Services for
Net Ware
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| GTLD
| Global Top Level
Domain name
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| GUI
| Graphical User
Interface-- pronounced "gooey," it uses graphical pictures in
combination with keystrokes and mouse button clicks to carry out commands.
It was designed to be easier to use than a character-based interface, such
as DOS. Microsoft Windows is a GUI or VUI
(Visual User Interface). |
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