| GATEWAY |
In Internet
terms, a gateway is a device that routes datagrams. More recently used to
refer to any networking device that translates protocols of one type network
into those of another network. |
| GATEWAY |
A
device that interfaces two networks that use different protocols. |
| GID |
(Group
identifier), a number representing the group that a process belongs to in
the operating system. |
| GIGABIT |
Very high-speed
(one billion bits per second) data communications. |
| GIGABYTE |
One billion
bytes, corresponding to decimal 1,073,741,824 (a kilobyte is 1,024 decimal). |
| GIGABYTE |
A unit
of data storage approximately equal to one billion bytes of data. |
| GLOBAL
VARIABLES |
Variables
that can be referred to anywhere within a package. |
| GOPHER |
An application
that allows you to access publicly available information on Internet hosts
that provide Gopher service. |
| GOPHERBOOK |
An application
that uses an interface resembling a book to access Gopher servers. |
| GOVERNMENT
OPEN SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION PROFILE |
(GOSIP)
A government standard that uses the OSI reference model. |
| GREP |
A UNIX
pattern matching utility. |
| GUI |
(Graphical
User Interface) A computer interface based on graphical symbols rather than
text. Windowing environments and Macintosh environments are GUIs. |
| GZIP |
A file
compression program originally designed to replace the UNIX compress utility. |