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31Buffer overflow — In computer security and programming, a buffer overflow, or buffer overrun, is an anomalous condition where a process attempts to store data beyond the boundaries of a fixed length buffer. The result is that the extra data overwrites adjacent… …
32Memory management unit — This 68451 MMU could be used with the Motorola 68010 A memory management unit (MMU), sometimes called paged memory management unit (PMMU), is a computer hardware component responsible for handling accesses to memory requested by the CPU. Its… …
33Rootkit — A rootkit is software that enables continued privileged access to a computer while actively hiding its presence from administrators by subverting standard operating system functionality or other applications. The term rootkit is a concatenation… …
34Architecture of Windows NT — The Windows NT operating system family s architecture consists of two layers (user mode and kernel mode), with many different modules within both of these layers. The architecture of Windows NT, a line of operating systems produced and sold by… …
35NTFS — Developer Microsoft Full name New Technology File System[1] Introduced July 1993 (Windows NT 3.1) Partition identifier 0x07 (MBR) EBD0A0A2 B9E5 4433 87C0 68B6 …
36Mandatory access control — In computer security, mandatory access control (MAC) refers to a type of access control by which the operating system constrains the ability of a subject or initiator to access or generally perform some sort of operation on an object or target.… …
37Microsoft Direct3D — Direct3D is part of Microsoft s DirectX application programming interface (API). Direct3D is available for Microsoft Windows operating systems (Windows 95 and above), and for other platforms through the open source software Wine. It is the base… …
38Memory barrier — Memory barrier, also known as membar or memory fence or fence instruction, is a type of barrier and a class of instruction which causes a central processing unit (CPU) or compiler to enforce an ordering constraint on memory operations issued… …
39Windows 9x — Windows 4.x redirects here. For the operating system in the NT family, see Windows NT 4.0. Windows 9x Screenshot of Windows 95, the first version of Windows in the 9x series Company / developer …
40CICS — For the Sudbury, Ontario radio station, see CICS FM. Customer Information Control System (CICS) is a transaction server that runs primarily on IBM mainframe systems under z/OS and z/VSE. CICS is a transaction manager designed for rapid, high… …
