Api vs Viewdata - What's the difference?
api | viewdata |
(computing) Application programming interface.
(pharmacology) Active pharmaceutical ingredient.
(often, attributive) An information retrieval service of the 1970s and 1980s permitting subscribers to access a remote database and receive requested data on a video display.
* 1981 , Rex Winsbury, Viewdata in Action: A Comparative Study of Prestel?
* 1981 , New Scientist
* 1982 , Alan Gilchrist, Minis, Micros and Terminals for Libraries and Information Services
As nouns the difference between api and viewdata
is that api is while viewdata is (often|attributive) an information retrieval service of the 1970s and 1980s permitting subscribers to access a remote database and receive requested data on a video display.api
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* (Application programming interface) * (pedialite)Anagrams
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(en-noun) (wikipedia viewdata)- A viewdata system can be succinctly described as an information and message service...
- The two European systems use an "alphamosaic" method of delivering data to a viewdata terminal screen.
- A particularly important application of intelligent viewdata terminals is in telesoftware where the viewdata network is used for the distribution...