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Saturday, January 15, 2005  


Free Online-Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC)

Free Online-Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC)
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html
http://www.foldoc.org/

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC) is a searchable dictionary of acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architectures, operating systems, networking, theory, mathematics, telecoms, institutions, companies, projects, products, history, in fact anything to do with computing. It aims to provide a one-stop source of information about all computing terms and includes many useful cross-references and pointers to related resources elsewhere on the Internet, as well as bibliographical references to paper publications. It lacks many entries which one can find in paper computing dictionaries but contains more encyclopedia-like entries and entries on subjects such as current hardware and software products, companies, and institutions. It also contains many definitions in related areas such as communications and networking. The dictionary started in 1985 and has grown, with the help of nearly 1200 contributors, to contain over 12000 definitions totalling 4.7 megabytes of text. It is freely available on the Internet via the World-Wide Web. It currently handles around 10000 WWW queries per day. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog.

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