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DIN Deutsche Industrie Normenausschuss. A German standards organization and member of ISO. DIN is also a form of connector on your computer that is round, has 5 pins, and is typically used to connect AT keyboard cable connectors. See also MiniDIN. DMA Direct memory access. An electronic pathway or direct channel on which a device can bypass the microprocessor and transfer data directly to RAM. A DMA channel is often one of the resources assigned when configuring an expansion card or EIDE drive. DMA is a recent alternative to PIO. DMI Desktop Management Interface. A standard of WfM that provides a method to determine various management attributes of a computer through the use of a standard software interface. DMTF Distributed Management Task Force. An industry organization leading the development, adoption, and unification of management standards and initiatives for desktop, enterprise, and Internet environments. Working with key technology vendors and affiliated standards groups, the DMTF is enabling a more integrated and efficient approach to management. DRAM Dynamic random-access memory (RAM). Referred to as "dynamic" because it must be regularly refreshed, unlike SRAM, which retains a value as long as power is supplied. See also RDRAM and SDRAM. DRDRAM Direct Rambus dynamic random-access memory (RDRAM). Provides a 16-bit bus, rather than the 8-bit DRAM bus. At a speed of 800 MHz, the peak data transfer rate is 1.6 billion Bps. DRDRAM uses pipelining to accelerate processing, allowing up to eight operations to be performed simultaneously. DTE Data terminal equipment. In computer data transmission, DTE is the RS-232 interface that a computer uses to exchange data with a modem or other serial device. See also DCE. 27