Glossary: A

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• AAUI — Apple's Auxilary Unit Interface
• Access Point (AP) — A hardware device or a computer's software that acts as a communication hub for users of a wireless device to connect to a wired LAN. APs are important for providing heightened wireless security and for extending the physical range of service to which a wireless user has access.
• ASCII — American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) in computer science is a standard way of encoding what is commonly referred to as "plain text".
• Athena — MIT's academic computing system.