TOAD
Short for Tools for Oracle Application Development, TOAD is a set of development tools used for application development, database development, or business intelligence and assist developers in deploying Oracle-based applications and Web services on the Windows platform. Developers use the applications for defining business logic, creating user interfaces, applications as Web services, and more.
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Short for TCP/IP Offload Engine, TOE a technology used in NICs (network interface cards) to offload processing of the TCP/IP stack to the network controller. TOE works because it allows the operating system to offload all TCP/IP traffic to hardware on the NIC, and also gives TCP/IP control to the host server. TOE is mainly […]
- TOSLINK
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- TOPS
Acronym for transparent operating system, a type of local-area network designed by Sun Microsystems that can combine Apple Macintosh computers, PCs, and Sun workstations on the same network. A particular strength of TOPS is that the networking software is transparent, meaning that users do not need to adjust to a new operating environment. PC users […]
- stop words
Words that are filtered out by Web search engines and other enterprise searching and indexing platforms. Stop words are natural language words which have very little meaning, such as “and”, “the”, “a”, “an”, and similar words.
- TPI
Short for tracks per inch, the density of tracks on a disk. For example, double-density 5.25-inch floppies have a TPI of 48, while high-density floppies record 96 TPI. High-density 3.5-inch diskettes are formatted with 135 TPI. Hard disks have TPIs in the thousands.