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MTBF
n. Acronym for mean time between failures. The average time interval, usually expressed in thousands or tens of thousands of hours (sometimes called power-on hours or POH), that will elapse before a hardware component fails and requires service.
MTTR
n. Acronym for mean time to repair. The average time interval, usually expressed in hours, that it takes to repair a failed component.
MUD
n. Acronym for multi-user dungeon. A virtual environment on the Internet in which multiple users simultaneously participate in a role-playing game and interact with each other in real time. Also called multi-user simulation environment.
multifunction board
n. A computer add-in board that provides more than one function. Multifunction boards for personal computers frequently offer additional memory, serial/parallel ports, and a clock/calendar.
Multilink Point-to-Point Protocol
n. An Internet protocol that allows computers to establish multiple physical links to combine their bandwidths. This technology creates a virtual link with more capacity than a single physical link. See also PPP. Acronym: MPPP.
multimedia
n. The combination of sound, graphics, animation, and video. In the world of computers, multimedia is a subset of hypermedia, which combines the aforementioned elements with hypertext. See also hypermedia, hypertext.
Multimedia PC
n. Software and hardware standards set forth by the Multimedia PC Marketing Council, which sets minimum standards for a PC's sound, video, and CD-ROM playing capabilities. Acronym: MPC.
Multimedia Personal Computer
n. See Multimedia PC.
multiplexer
n. 1. A hardware circuit for selecting a single output from multiple inputs. 2. A device for funneling several different streams of data over a common communications line. Multiplexers are used to attach many communications lines to a smaller number of communications ports or to attach a large number of communications ports to a smaller number of communications lines. Acronym: MUX.
multiplexing
n. A technique used in communications and input/output operations for transmitting a number of separate signals simultaneously over a single channel or line. To maintain the integrity of each signal on the channel, multiplexing can separate the signals by time, space, or frequency. The device used to combine the signals is a multiplexer. See also FDM, space-division multiplexing, time-division multiplexing.
Multi-Protocol Over ATM
n. See MPOA.
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
n. See MIME.
multiuser
n. See multiuser system.
multiuser dungeon
n. See MUD.
multiuser simulation environment
n. See MUD.
MUX
n. See multiplexer (definition 2).
My Briefcase
n. A Windows 95 utility, helpful for workers away from the office, that manages the updating of modified files once the remote user's computer is connected back on the office network.
MYOB
Acronym for Mind your own business. An expression used in e-mail and newsgroups.
A/B Switch box ~ America On-line AMI BIOS ~ Arithmetic Operation ARP ~ AVI Backbone ~ Bit Image Bit Map ~ Boot Disk Boot Drive ~ Bytes Per Inch C++ ~ Carrier Frequency carrier system ~ certification CGI ~ Chooser extension cipher ~ Clipper Chip clock ~ color color bits ~ communications satellite communications server ~ computer security CON ~ copy copy program ~ cycle time daemon ~ defragmentation demand paging ~ digitize DikuMUD ~ disk disk buffer ~ Document Style Semantics and Specification Language document window ~ dynamic Web page Easter egg ~ erase erase head ~ ezine F2F ~ finger2 firewall ~ font suitcase footer ~ FYI Game Control Adapter ~ GUI HAL ~ hot key1 hot key2 ~ Hz i486DX ~ internal modem internet ~ ISO 9660 ISO/OSI model ~ just-in-time K1 ~ knowledge base L1 cache ~ LU luggable computer ~ LZW compression MAC ~ MILNET mime ~ msec MTBF ~ MYOB named anchor ~ network drive Network File System ~ number crunching object ~ overwrite mode P5 ~ PC/XT keyboard PDA ~ pipeline processing piracy ~ preventive maintenance preview ~ pwd quasi-language ~ QWERTY keyboard R&D ~ registration marks Registry ~ RFI RF shielding ~ run-time library SAA ~ server error server push-pull ~ soft return software ~ style sheet stylus ~ System T1 ~ ToggleKeys token ~ typography UART ~ uupc V.120 ~ view2 viewer ~ VxD w3 ~ WinG WINS ~ WWW X.25 ~ X Windows Yahoo! ~ yotta- Z39.50 standard ~ Zulu time