First published in 1981, the 9th Edition in 2001 was the last book with the glossary title. The book evolved into Computer Desktop Encyclopedia (CDE), and floppy disk and CD-ROM versions became ...

Computer jargon can be opaque even to those that know the words well. Since although you might learn what all the terms mean, that doesn't mean you know where the word came from, or what it meant ...

This technical reference covers every important computer concept and product with more than 40,000 entries and 10,000 charts, diagrams and images. All definitions in this encyclopedia are not only ...