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:

    “In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and ... in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.”
    —William Dean Howells (1837–1920)

    “The nature of women’s oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to significant wealth, but that wealth does not signify power; women are to be found everywhere, but own or control no appreciable territory; women live with those who oppress them, sleep with them, have their children—we are tangled, hopelessly it seems, in the gut of the machinery and way of life which is ruinous to us.”
    —Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946)