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A Dictionary of Computing

Web Links

Here is a list of recommended web links, arranged alphabetically by the relevant dictionary entries.

 A B C D E F H I J L N O P R S T U V W X

A  Top

ACM
http://www.acm.org
The ACM home page

Ada
http://www.adaic.org/standards/ada05.html
The Ada 2005 Language Reference Manual

ANSI
http://www.ansi.org
The ANSI home page

B  Top

BCS
http://www.bcs.org
The BCS home page

Border Gateway Protocol
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4271
The Border Gateway Protocol (version 4) specification

BSI Group
http://www.bsigroup.com
The BSI Group home page

C  Top

C
http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1256.pdf
The current C standard

C#
http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c04...
The ISO C# specification

C++
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21
The C++ standards committee Web page

certificate
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3280
The Internet X509 specification

CORBA
http://www.omg.org/gettingstarted/corbafaq.htm
The OMG CORBA FAQ

CSS
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21
The CSS (version 2.1) specification

D  Top

DHCP
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2131
The DHCP specification

Document Object Model
http://www.w3.org/DOM
The WSC's DOM page

domain name system
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1034
Introduction to the Internet domain name system
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1035
Domain names - implementation and specification

DVD
http://www.dvdforum.org
The DVD Forum home page

E  Top

ECMA International
http://www.ecma-international.org
The ECMA International home page

EMACS
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html
The GNU EMACS home page

ESPRIT
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/home_en.html
The Framework VII programme home page

Ethernet
http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/802.3.html
The latest (10 Gigabit) Ethernet standard

EUREKA
http://www.eureka.be/home.do
The EUREKA home page

F  Top

FCC
http://www.fcc.gov
The FCC home page

FIRST
http://www.first.org
The FIRST home page

Fortran
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranStandards
Links to standards for the various versions of Fortran

Free Software Foundation
http://www.fsf.org
The Free Software Foundation home page

H  Top

HTML
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401
The HTML (version 4.01) specification

HTTP
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616
The HTTP (version 1.1) specification

I  Top

IANA
http://www.iana.org
The IANA home page

ICANN
http://www.icann.org
The ICANN home page

IEC
http://www.iec.ch
The IEC home page

IEEE
http://www.ieee.org
The IEEE home page

IFIP
http://www.ifip.org
The IFIP home page

IMAP
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501
The IMAP (version 4rev1) specification

Internet Society
http://www.isoc.org
The Internet Society home page

ITU
http://www.itu.int
The ITU home page

J  Top

Java
http://www.java.com
Sun's Java home page

JavaScript
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/JavaScript
Mozilla's documentation for JavaScript

JPEG
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/JPEG/itu-t81.pdf
The JPEG standard (CCITT recommendation T.81)

L  Top

LDAP
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4511
The LDAP specification

Linux
http://www.kernel.org
The Linux Kernel Archives home page

N  Top

NFS
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3530
The NFS (version 4) specification

O  Top

OpenGL
http://www.opengl.org
The OpenGL home page

P  Top

Pascal
http://www.pascal-central.com/docs/iso7185.pdf
The Pascal standard (1990 revision)

PCMCIA
http://pcmcia.org
The PCMCIA home page

PDF
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_reference_1-7.pdf
The PDF reference manual (version 1.7)
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdfs/pdf_17_errata.pdf
Errata for PDF reference manual (version 1.7)

Perl
http://perldoc.perl.org/
Perl documentation (version 5.10.0)

PHP
http://php.net
The PHP home page

PNG
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-PNG-20031110/
The W3C PNG specification (second edition)

POSIX
http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/posix
The IEEE POSIX Certification Authority

PostScript
http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF
The PostScript introductory tutorial and cookbook
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/ps/PLRM.pdf
The PostScript language reference (3rd edition)

R  Top

Rexx
http://www.rexxla.org
The Rexx Language Association home page

RPG
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/...
The ILE RPG Programmer's Guide

RTF
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DD4...
The RTF (version 1.9) specification

Ruby
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en
The Ruby programming language home page

S  Top

SAX
http://www.saxproject.org
The SAX home page

SOAP
http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group
The W3C's XML Protocol Working Group page

Software Engineering Institute
http://www.sei.cmu.edu
The Software Engineering Institute home page

SVG
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/
The W3C SVG specification (version 1.1)

T  Top

TCP/IP
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc793
The TCP (version 4) specification
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc791
The IP (version 4) specification
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2460
The IP (version 6) specification

The Open Group
http://www.opengroup.org
The Open Group home page

Tron
http://www.tron.org/index-e.html
The Tron Project home page

U  Top

Unicode
http://www.unicode.org
The Unicode Consortium home page

UNIX
http://www.unix.org
The Open Group's UNIX page

URI
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986
The URI specification

USB
http://www.usb.org/developers/docs
The USB (version 2) specification

UTF-16
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/ch03.pdf
Details of UTF-16 encoding from the Unicode (version 5) standard

UTF-32
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/ch03.pdf
Details of UTF-32 encoding from the Unicode (version 5) standard

UTF-8
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/ch03.pdf
Details of UTF-8 encoding from the Unicode (version 5) standard

V  Top

VBScript
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sx7b3k7y(VS.85).aspx
VBScript user's guide
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d1wf56tt(VS.85).aspx
VBScript language reference

VoIP
http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.323-200912-I/en
The H323 specification
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3261
The SIP specification

W  Top

WebDAV
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4918
The WebDAV specification

Web service
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws
The WC3's Web Services Activity Page
http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20-primer
The WSDL (version 2.0) specification primer

X  Top

X509
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3280
The Internet X509 specification

XHTML
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1
The XHTML (version 1.0) specification

XML
http://www.w3.org/XML
The W3C's XML page

XML schema
http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema
The W3C's XML schema page

XPath
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20
The XPath (version 2.0) specification
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath
The XPath (version 1.0) specification (still very widely used)

XQuery
http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery
The XQuery (version 1.0) specification

XSL
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20
The XSLT (version 2.0) specification
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt
The XSLT (version 1.0) specification (still very widely used)
http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11
The XSL-FO (version 1.1) specification

X Windows
http://www.x.org
The X.Org Foundation home page

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