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- T1 - T-One
- T3 - T-Three
- TA - Terminal Adapter
- TANSTAAFL - There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
- TAPI - Telephony Application Programming Interface
- TCP/IP - Transmission (Transport) Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
- TDM - Time Division Multiplexing
- TDMA - Time Division Multiple Access
- TFT - Thin Film Transistor
- TFTP - Trivial File Transfer Protocol
- TIA - Thanks In Advance
- TIFF - Tagged Image File Format
- TIGA - Texas Instruments Graphics Architecture
- TLD - Top-Level Domain
- TOPS - Transparent Operating System
- tpi - Tracks Per Inch
- TRAM - Transactional RAM
- TSAPI - Telephony Service API
- TSR - Terminate-and-Stay-Resident
- TTF - True Type Font
- TTL - Transistor-Transistor Logic
- TWAIN - [No present expansion]
- TWIP - Twentieth of a Point
T CKInfo Items
Computer Knowledge information pages for terms starting with the letter T.
T1 - T-One
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(tee-one)
A leased line carrying 1.544 Mbps DS1-formatted digital data (often used for Internet connections). T1 lines are generally unshielded twisted pair wires (two pairs are required: one for outgoing traffic and one for incoming traffic). Transm...
T3 - T-Three
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A leased line carrying 44.736 Mbps DS3-formatted digital data (often Internet connections).
TA - Terminal Adapter
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(T-A)
Networking hardware that connects an ISDN Basic Rate Interface to computer equipment. A TA is sometimes called an ISDN modem because it serves that purpose just as a regular modem connects a phone line to your computer....
TANSTAAFL - There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
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(tan-stah-full)
An acronym typically used as part of a message or newsgroup posting. This particular one originates from Robert Heinlein's classic science fiction novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Outside the computer area TINSTAAFL (There Is No......
TAPI - Telephony Application Programming Interface
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(tappy)
A Windows interface that allows the programmer to more easily write telephone-based applications (e.g., fax) while letting Windows do most of the work actually controlling the hardware.
TCP/IP - Transmission (Transport) Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
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(T-C-P-I-P)
A communication protocol used to ease communication between computers over a network. TCP/IP is the primary protocol used on the Internet (TCP/IP is really a suite of protocols).
You will also often see "TCP/IP" address (or just IP addres...
TDM - Time Division Multiplexing
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(T-D-M)
TDM transmits fixed time sequences into which data streams are inserted by giving each stream different time slots.
TDMA - Time Division Multiple Access
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(T-D-M-A)
Digital phone technology able to transmit multiple voice circuits per channel based on time sharing.
TFT - Thin Film Transistor
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(T-F-T)
An LCD flat-panel display, often called active-matrix. Each pixel is individually controlled by one or more transistors. This accounts for the excellent resolution of a TFT display, and its higher cost....
TFTP - Trivial File Transfer Protocol
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(T-F-T-P)
A simplified version of FTP.
