Direct access may refer to:
- DirectAccess, a network technology in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
- Direct access, a concept in computer science
- Direct Access Archive, a proprietary file format
- Direct access storage device, a secondary computer storage device
- Direct Access Test Unit, special numbers used to test telephone exchanges
- Direct access trading, a technology for stock trading
Famous quotes containing the words direct and/or access:
“As for your friend, my prospective reader, I hope he ignores Fort Sumter, and “Old Abe,” and all that; for that is just the most fatal, and, indeed, the only fatal weapon you can direct against evil ever; for, as long as you know of it, you are particeps criminis. What business have you, if you are an “angel of light,” to be pondering over the deeds of darkness, reading the New York Herald, and the like.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Power, in Case’s world, meant corporate power. The zaibatsus, the multinationals ..., had ... attained a kind of immortality. You couldn’t kill a zaibatsu by assassinating a dozen key executives; there were others waiting to step up the ladder; assume the vacated position, access the vast banks of corporate memory.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)