- radio button -Small
buttons that appear in sets on a computer interface
screen, allowing the user only one from a range of
choices. Like the select butons on a car radio, selecting
one automatically de-selects all the others in the set.
- RAM - (Random-Access
Memory) The part of a computer's memory that is available
for loading user-selected software and data.
- readme - Files
which give you useful information (normally tips / bugs
detected after the software was readied for release).
Read these files.
- RealAudio - Progressive
Networks' RealAudio client-server software system enables
Internet and on-line users equipped with conventional
multimedia personal computers and voice-grade telephone
lines to browse, select, and play back audio or
audio-based multimedia content on demand, in real time.
This is a break-through in multi-media technology.
- real time chat - A
program allowing live conversation between individuals by
typing on a computer terminal. The most common tools are
Talk and IRC (International Relay Chat).
- reciprocal link - A
hyperlink or link placed on one Web site to return the
favor of another site putting a link on their page. (Kind
of you-scratch-my-back-and-i-scratch-yours)
- record -In a
database, one complete entry-usually consisting of
several fields.
- remote terminal - The
user can therefore enter commands on a keyboard attached
to their local computer and access files etc. on a remote
computer that may be located anywhere in the world.
- RFC - Request For
Comments - The name of the result and the process for
creating a standard on the Internet. New standards are
proposed and published on line, as a "Request For
Comments". The Internet Engineering Task Force is a
consensus-building body that facilitates discussion, and
eventually a new standard is established, but the
reference number/name for the standard retains the
acronym "RFC", e.g. the official standard for
e-mail is RFC 822.
- RGB - Red Green Blue
- robot - Same as
'Bot'.
- ROM -(Read-Only
Memory) The part of a computers memory that contains
manufacturer's instructions, not available for the user.
- router - In a local
area network, a device that receives physical-level
signals, performs data-link-level and network-level
protocol processes and then sends them to another
network, say Internet.