prompt
A symbol on a display screen indicating that the computer is waiting for input. Once the computer has displayed a prompt, it waits for you to enter some information. Generally, it will wait forever, but some programs have built-in time-outs that cause the program to continue execution after it has waited a specified amount of time.
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A proof of concept virus is written by an individual with advanced programming skills, usually to ‘show off’ their programming talents or to point out a vulnerability in a specific software. Usually authors of proof-of-concept viruses will send these programs to an anti-virus software developer, and the programmer would be more apt to produce a […]
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)A font in which different characters have different pitches (widths). Proportional fonts are also called proportional-pitch fonts. The opposite of a proportional font is a fixed-pitch font.
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