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Term |
Definition |
| Gantt chart |
The schedule of activities for a project. A Gantt Chart shows start
and finish dates, critical and non-critical activities, slack time, and
predecessor relationships. |
| Gateway |
Currently, a gateway is a communications device/program which
passes data between networks having similar functions but dissimilar
implementations. This should not be confused with a protocol converter. By this
definition, a router is a layer 3 (network layer) gateway, and a mail gateway
is a layer 7 (application layer) gateway. |
| Generic software |
Software of a common or given type: spreadsheets, database,
graphics package etc. Made to sell to many companies |
| GIF |
(Graphic Interchange Format) -- A common format for image files,
especially suitable for images containing large areas of the same colour. GIF
format files of simple images are often smaller than the same file would be if
stored in JPEG format, but GIF format does not store photographic images as
well as JPEG. |
| Gigabyte |
1000 or 1024 Megabytes, depending on who is measuring. |
| GIS |
Geographical Information system |
| Gopher |
A widely successful method of making menus of material available
over the Internet. Gopher is a Client and Server style program, which requires
that the user have a Gopher Client program. Although Gopher spread rapidly
across the globe in only a couple of years, it has been largely supplanted by
Hypertext, also known as WWW (World Wide Web). There are still thousands of
Gopher Servers on the Internet and we can expect they will remain for a while.
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| GUI |
Graphic User Interface. A graphic based interface between a "user"
and a computer. GUI usually require a mouse pointing device. All programs with
a given GUI have similar menus, icons and so on. |
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