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...Protocols attempt to precisely define the communication within and between computing endpoints. If two computer systems define the same protocols, they may be c ...based communications are also emerging as a computer systems communication protocol.

*1a : the act or [[action]] of computing : [[calculation]] ...del]] understood and [[expressed]] as, for example, an [[algorithm]], or a protocol. Computation can be [[classified]] by mainly three unique criteria: digital

...gnal. Timekeeping technologies such as the GPS satellites and Network time protocol (NTP) provide [[real-time]] access to a close approximation to the UTC time [[Computer science]] (In computer science, especially parallel computing, synchronisation refers to the coordination of simultaneous threads or [[pr

# computing: (of a request or a message) allowing the client to continue during a proce ...nous serial communication], describes an asynchronous, serial transmission protocol in which a start signal is sent prior to each byte, character or code word

The browser then requests the resource by sending an [[Hypertext Transfer Protocol|HTTP]] request to the Web server at that particular address. In the case of ...onths after the announcement that the [[Gopher (protocol)#Decline|Gopher]] protocol was no longer free to use, this produced a rapid shift away from Gopher and

...a (computing)|data]] by [[packet switching]] using the standard [[Internet Protocol]] (IP). It consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, an

..., IBM distributed [[operating system]]s in source format, and the [[SHARE (computing)|SHARE]] user group was formed to facilitate the exchange of source code. I ...and [[Gnutella]] take advantage of various characteristics of the Internet protocol ([[TCP/IP]]) in an attempt to totally decentralize file distribution.