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National Advanced Systems

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(NAS) A company, previously known as ITEL, that made IBM plug-compatible hardware and was bought by Hitachi.

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Last updated: 2003-07-20

National Bureau of Standards

National Institute of Standards and Technology

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

<body, web>

(NCSA) The birthplace of the first version of the Mosaic web browser.

Address: Urbana, IL, USA.

http://ncsa.uiuc.edu/.

[Summary?]

Last updated: 1994-10-27

national characters

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Characters with accents and other diacritical marks that are used in certain written languages (that are based on the Roman alphabet) but not in others, particularly not in English. A standard list is ISO Latin 1.

Last updated: 1996-06-24

National Database Language

<database, standard>

(NDL) A US standard for portability of database definitions and application programs.

Last updated: 1996-06-24

National Information Infrastructure

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(NII, or "information superhighway") US Vice-President, Al Gore's early 1990s buzz-phrase for proposed integrated communications in the USA, based on a nationwide network of networks allowing all Americans to take advantage of the country's information, communication, and computing resources. It was to encompass hardware, software, media and jobs.

http://www.ibiblio.org/nii/NII-Table-of-Contents.html.

Last updated: 2023-05-29

National Information Services and Systems

(NISS) An information archive service at Bath University, intended primarily for UK eductional institutions.

http://niss.ac.uk/.

Last updated: 1994-11-23

National Institute of Standards and Technology

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(NIST, formerly the National Bureau of Standards) A United States governmental body that helps develop standards including FIPS.

NIST Home.

Last updated: 2003-06-04

National Research and Education Network

(NREN) The realisation of an interconnected gigabit computer network devoted to High Performance Computing and Communications.

National Science Foundation

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(NSF) A US government agency that promotes the advancement of science by funding science researchers, scientific projects and infrastructure to improve the quality of scientific research. The NSFNET is funded by NSF.

http://nsf.org/.

Last updated: 1999-01-15

National Science Foundation Network

(NSFNET) A high speed hierarchical "network of networks" in the US, funded by the National Science Foundation. At the highest level, it is a backbone network comprising 16 nodes connected to a 45Mb/s facility which spans the continental United States. Attached to that are mid-level networks and attached to the mid-levels are campus and local networks. NSFNET also has connections out of the US to Canada, Mexico, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. The NSFNET is part of the Internet.

Last updated: 1993-01-01

National Semiconductor

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A semiconductor manufacturer, responsible for the SC/MP, National Semiconductor 16000 and National Semiconductor 32000 series of microprocessors.

Last updated: 2005-06-09

National Semiconductor 32000

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(NS32000) <processor> The first of a series of microprocessors from National Semiconductor. The 320xx processors have an interface which allows coprocessors such as FPUs and MMUs to be attached in a chain.

The 320xx was the predecessor of the Swordfish processor.

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Last updated: 1994-11-17