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Abbreviation for millivolt(s).

name

The name of an object or variable is the exact string that identifies it in an SNMP

Management Information Base (MIB) file, or in a DMI Management Information

Format (MIF) file, or in a CIM Management Object File (MOF).

NDIS

Abbreviation for Network Driver Interface Specification.

NIC

Acronym for network interface controller.

NIF

Acronym for network interface function. This term is equivalent to NIC.

NIS

Abbreviation for Network Information System. NIS is a network naming and

administration system for smaller networks. A user at any host can get access to

files or applications on any host in the network with a single user identification

and password.

NMI

Abbreviation for nonmaskable interrupt. A device sends an NMI to signal the

microprocessor about hardware errors, such as a parity error.

noninterlaced

A technique for decreasing screen flicker by sequentially refreshing each horizontal

line on the screen.

Abbreviation for nanosecond(s), one billionth of a second.

NTFS

Abbreviation for the NT File System option in the Windows NT operating system

and later Windows operating systems.

NuBus

Proprietary expansion bus used on Apple

Macintosh

personal computers.

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