IT glossary of terms, acronyms and abbreviations. Faulkner Information Services . 2015.
control character — A nonprinting character with a special meaning. Control characters, such as Carriage Return, Line Feed, Bell, or Escape, perform a specific operation on a terminal, printer, or communications line. They are grouped together as the first 32… … Dictionary of networking
Character interval — Character interval: In a communications system, the total number of unit intervals required to transmit any given character, including synchronizing, information, error checking, or control characters, but not including signals that are not… … Wikipedia
Communications protocol — For other senses of this word, see Protocol. A communications protocol is a system of digital message formats and rules for exchanging those messages in or between computing systems and in telecommunications. A protocol may have a formal… … Wikipedia
Control Data Corporation — (CDC) was a supercomputer firm. For most of the 1960s, it built the fastest computers in the world by far, only losing that crown in the 1970s after Seymour Cray left the company to found Cray Research, Inc. (CRI). CDC was one of the nine major… … Wikipedia
Communications in the People's Republic of China — Telecommunications in China redirects here. For the industry, see Telecommunications industry in China. This article is about Communications in the People s Republic of China, excluding Hong Kong and Macau (see Communications in Hong Kong and… … Wikipedia
negative acknowledge character — Control character sent to a transmitting station to indicate receipt of communications with one or more errors … IT glossary of terms, acronyms and abbreviations
End-of-transmission character — In telecommunication, an end of transmission character (␄ or EOT) is a transmission control character. Its intended use is to indicate the conclusion of a transmission that may have included one or more texts and any associated message… … Wikipedia
Escape character — In computing and telecommunication, an escape character is a character which invokes an alternative interpretation on subsequent characters in a character sequence. An escape character is a particular case of metacharacters. Generally, the… … Wikipedia
Software flow control — is a method of flow control used in computer data links, especially RS 232 serial. It uses special codes, transmitted in band, over the primary communications channel. These codes are generally called XOFF and XON (from transmit off and on ,… … Wikipedia
Enquiry (computer communications) — In computer communications, enquiry is a transmission control character that requests a response from the receiving station [ [http://dictionary.zdnet.com/definition/enquiry+character.html ZDNet Definition for: Enquiry Character] ] with which a… … Wikipedia
