| WAN |
Wide Area Network. A communications network that covers a wide geographic area, such as state or country. |
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| wavetable |
Wavetable sound cards play back actual samples (real recordings) of requested instruments while FM sound cards produce sound by artifically simulating the waves of an actual sound. |
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| Whetstone |
A benchmark to measure the speed of floating point operations. |
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| wide area network. |
A communications network that covers a wide geographic area, such as state or country. |
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| WinstoneŽ |
A benchmark test developed by Ziff Davis Labs to measure performance between PCs running a variety of widely used applications. Winstone 32 tests using 32-bit applications, while Winstone 96 uses 16-bit apps. |
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| write-back (cache) |
A cache architechture where data is only written to main memory after it is forced out of the cache. |
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| WYSIWYG |
(wizzy-wig) What You See Is What You Get. When what appears on the screen looks the same as what comes out of the printer. |
