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NDIS

Acronym for Network Driver Interface Specification. NDIS provides transport independence for network vendors. All transport drivers call the NDIS interface to access network.

nibble mode

An asynchronous, peripheral-to-host channel defined in the IEEE 1284-1994 standard. This mode provides a channel for the peripheral to send data to the host, which is commonly used to identify the peripheral.

NMI

Acronym for Nonmaskable Interrupt. An interrupt that cannot be overruled by another service request; called nonmaskable because it bypasses and takes priority over interrupt requests generated by software, the keyboard, and other devices.

NTFS

Windows NT File System. An advanced file system designed for use specifically with the Windows NT operating system. NTFS supports file system recovery and extremely large storage media, in addition to other advantages.