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Daisy chain

A Daisy chain is a number of hardware components which are connected in series to each other. Priorities can be specified when the components are wired up so that conflicts and faulty functions can be avoided.

DAS

Direct Attached Storage

The Direct Attached Storage is a storage medium (usually hard disks) which can be connected up directly to the bus of a computer, via ATA, SATA, SCSI or USB, for example. DAS is the opposite of NAS (Network Attached Storage). In NAS the storage medium is connected up via the network.

DCE

Distributed Computing Environment

The Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) is an industrial standard for distributed applications. It offers a series of services and tools, such as security services or a directory service.

DHCP Client

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Client

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) uses a corresponding server for the dynamic assignment of an IP address and further configuration parameters to a computer in a network (Internet or LAN, for example).