MUA
Short for mail user agent, the software that allows a user to access and manage e-mail, including reading, composing, disposing, printing and displaying e-mail messages. The MUA provides the interface between the user and the MTA. Eudora and Outlook are two popular MUAs.
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- MUCK
Short for Multi-User Chat Kingdom, a text-based MUD system. MUCK is similar to MUSH, though it uses different software.
- MUMPS
Short for Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multiprogramming System, a general-purpose programming language developed in the late 1960s. MUMPS is similar to other procedural languages developed in this period, such as BASIC, FORTRAN, and C. A MUMPS standard was approved by ANSI in 1977. Although MUMPS has never achieved the popularity level of other languages such […]
- MUSH
Short for Multi-User Shared Hallucination, a text-based MUD system. There are many MUSH worlds that have been evolving for years.
- MVNE
Short for Mobile Virtual Network Enabler, MVNEs provides both an infrastructure and related services to MVNOs. This includes network provisioning, administration and various operations such as billing and account handling. A MVNE does not have a direct relationship with the end-user (customer), but rather they provide the services directly to the mobile virtual network operator […]
- MVNO
(pronounced as separate letters) Short for mobile virtual network operator, a mobile service operator that does not have its own licensed spectrum and does not have the infrastructure to provide mobile service to its customers (i.e., it does not own the network on which its voice and data traffic is carried). Instead, MVNOs lease wireless […]