Computer Science

Gateway
A link between different computer networks. It is usually a computer that acts as a translator between two completely dissimilar systems. As it is both a translator and a router it is usually slower than a bridge or router.

GIF
Graphic Interchange Format - A common format for image files, especially suitable for images containing large areas of the same color. GIF format files of simple images are often smaller than the same file would be if stored in JPEG format, but GIF format does not store photographic images as well as JPEG.

Gigabyte
1024 Megabytes

Gopher
A widely successful method of making menus of material available over the Internet. Gopher is a Client and Server side program, which requires that the user have a Gopher Client program. It has been replaced by Hypertext, but there are many Gopher servers around to date. It was the precursor to the WWW.

GPF
General Protection Fault - An error that occurs in Microsoft Windows when a program tries to access a memory location that is not allocated to it.

GSNW
Gateway Service for NetWare

GUI
Graphical User Interface - Windows is a GUI based program. Programs are accessed via icons and other graphically based operations as opposed to text-only.