Glossary of Data Communications TermsCourtesy Enterprise-Wide Computing, Inc. |
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Term:
resource
Definition: Any facility of a computing system or operating system required by a job or task, and including main storage, input/output devices, processing unit, data sets, and control or processing programs. anything used or consumed while performing a function. Categories of resources include time, information, objects (information containers), or processors (the ability to use information). |
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