DAT

DAT or Dat may refer to:

Biology

Education

Technology

  • .dat, computer filename extension, typically for a file considered to contain data
  • dat (software), a decentralized data tool for distributing data small and large.
  • DAT Solutions, or Dial-A-Truck, provider of electronic transportation information
  • Digital Audio Tape, an audio recording and playback medium
  • Double acting tanker, a type of icebreaking tanker ship
  • Dynamic Acceleration Technology, increases single-threaded performance on multi-core processors
  • Dynamic Address Translation, IBM's term for virtual memory mapping: Virtual memory#History

Transport

Media and entertainment

Other

gollark: You could also say Βob, which is identical-looking but uses a capital β instead of an actual B.
gollark: Or, well, human languages™.
gollark: Unicode™!
gollark: Yes, that is actually B.
gollark: Advantages of 128-character full-charset names:- /view/n/ pages would still only hold one unique dragon- greater opportunities for creativity via use of anomalous Unicode- essentially infinite quantity of available names- can reuse names through use of invisible characters and/or homoglyphs- more efficient lyrical lineages - fewer dragons required per word- could store 2048 bits of data per name via base65536- can name them after people/things in other languagesDisadvantages:~~- cannot actually distinguish some names without a hexdump or something- pretty hard for people to actually use without knowledge of ridiculous Unicode stuff~~ none whatsoever
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