H. Glossary of Terms
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Applet | Applets are small Java programs that can be embedded |
| in an HTML page. The rule at the moment is that an |
| applet can only make an Internet connection to the |
| computer form that the applet was sent. |
ASCII | American Standard Code For Information Interchange, |
| it is the standard method for encoding characters as 8- |
| bit sequences of binary numbers, allowing a maximum |
| of 256 characters. |
ARP | Address Resolution Protocol. ARP is a protocol that |
| resides at the TCP/IP Internet layer that delivers data |
| on the same network by translating an IP address to a |
| physical address. |
AVI | Audio Video Interleave, it is a Windows platform audio |
| and video file type, a common format for small movies |
| and videos. |
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