Direct Access

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:

    “Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any direct and conscious blasphemy or irreverence; but of indirect and habitual, enough. Where is the man who is guilty of direct and personal insolence to Him that made him?”
    —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)