meaning of drecnet

1. DRECNET /dreknet/ [Yiddish/German "dreck", meaning filth] Deliberate distortion of DECNET, a networking protocol used in the VMS community. So called because DEC helped write the Ethernet specification and then either stupidly or as a malignant customer-control tactic violated that spec in the design of DRECNET in a way that made it incompatible. See also connector conspiracy. driver 1. system> device driver. 2. The main loop of an event-processing program; the code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution. 3. In the TeX world and the computerised typesetting world in general, a program that translates some device-independent or other common format to something a real device can actually understand. [Jargon File] drivers driver Dr. James H. Clark The founder of Silicon Graphics, Inc. and co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation.

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