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DIN
Deutsche Industrie Normenausschuss. A German standards organization and
member of ISO .
DIN is also a form of connector on your computer that is round, has 5 pins,
and is typically used to connect AT keyboard cable connectors. See also Mini-
DIN .
DMA
Direct memory access. An electronic pathway or direct channel on which a
device can bypass the microprocessor and transfer data directly to RAM . A
DMA channel is often one of the resources assigned when configuring an
expansion card or EIDE drive. DMA is a recent alternative to PIO .
DMI
Desktop Management Interface. A standard of WfM that provides a method
to determine various management attributes of a computer through the use
of a standard software interface.
DMTF
Distributed Management Task Force. An industry organization leading the
development, adoption, and unification of management standards and
initiatives for desktop, enterprise, and Internet environments. Working with
key technology vendors and affiliated standards groups, the DMTF is enabling
a more integrated and efficient approach to management.
DRAM
Dynamic random-access memory ( RAM ). Referred to as “dynamic” because it
must be regularly refreshed, unlike SRAM , which retains a value as long as
power is supplied. See also RDRAM and SDRAM .
DRDRAM
Direct Rambus dynamic random-access memory ( RDRAM ). Provides a 16-bit
bus , rather than the 8-bit DRAM bus. At a speed of 800 MHz , the peak data
transfer rate is 1.6 billion Bps . DRDRAM uses pipelining to accelerate
processing, allowing up to eight operations to be performed simultaneously.
DTE
Data terminal equipment. In computer data transmission, DTE is the RS-232
interface that a computer uses to exchange data with a modem or other serial
device. See also DCE .