N
near-letter quality (NLQ)

A category of dot-matrix printer that can come close to the quality of a laser printer, but still is lacking somewhat in print quality.

NetBEUI (NetBIOS Extended User Interface)

A network device driver for the transport layer supplied with Microsoft's LAN Manager.

NetBIOS (network basic input/output system)

In networking, a layer of software, originally developed in 1984 by IBM and Sytek, that links a network operating system with specific network hardware. NetBIOS provides an application program interface (API) with a consistent set of commands for requesting lower-level network services to transmit information from node to node.

network

A group of computers and associated peripherals connected by a communications ...

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