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BA British Airways
B-ISDN Broadband ISDN - will use ATM?
BABT British Approval Board for Telecommunications - useless.
Baseband strict definition is "transferring a single channel of data over a single line".
Opposite of Broadband.
BBN Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. - Cambridge, MA company
responsible for ARPANET and the Internet core gateway system,
the CSNET Coordination and Information Center (CIC), and
NSFNET Network Service Center (NNSC).
BBS Bulletin Board System
behaviors - (note US spelling) a JavaScript extension which allows event handlers
to be included in style definitions.
Seems to extend to calling wierd functions. e.g.
msdn: clientCaps Behavior
BERT Bit Error Rate Test - performed by some comms data testers.
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
- exterior routing protocol that is starting to replace EGP.
BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain - UNIX implementation of DNS.
BIOS Basic Input/Output System
BISYNC Binary Synchronous Communications - an IBM character protocol.
BITNET Because It's Time Network - low cost low speed.
BKK Bangkok
BLERT comms: Block Error Rate Test - performed by some data testers.
Block-Level Elements - HTML elements are either Block-Level or
Inline depending mainly on whether or not they start a new section (on a new line).
Thus headings are block-level and font elements are inline, and buttons could be either depending on how they are used.
The general rule is that inline elements should not contain any block-level elements. There are, of course, complications
with frames and tables etc., and the distinction is not that useful and can normally be ignored.
BNC 10Base-2 (Thin Ethernet) connection
Broadcast -
IP subnet broadcasts can be used for name resolution.
Broadcasts are received by all computers on a subnet, requiring processing time at each computer.
Windows Networking also maintains a designated browse master that maintains a list of all resources available on a subnet.
An election process that uses broadcasts determines this browse master.
Because registrations, browser elections, and name queries could all generate broadcasts,
use of the broadcast name resolution method is not recommended.
Broadband strict definition is "transferring multiple channels of data over a single line".
Opposite of Baseband.
See ISDN, ADSL, SDSL.
BSD Berkeley Software Distribution - sockets i/f to C.
BSI British Standards Institution
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