| English | Spanish |
| direct access | acceso directo (The ability of a computer to find and go directly to a particular storage location without having to search sequentially from the beginning location. The human equivalent of random access would be the ability to find a desired address in an address book without having to proceed sequentially through all the addresses. A computer's semiconductor memory (both RAM and ROM) provides random access. Certain types of files stored on disk under some operating systems also allow random access. Such files are best used for data in which each record has no intrinsic relationship to what comes physically before or after it, as in a client list or an inventory) |
| direct memory access | acceso directo a memoria (A technology that allows certain devices, such as hard disks and CD or DVD drives, to transfer information directly through the computer's memory without using the computer's processor. DMA improves the performance of the device and frees the computer's processor so it can perform other tasks) |
| Remote Direct Memory Access | acceso directo a memoria remota (A networking feature that lets one computer directly place information into the memory of another computer) |
| scatter/gather direct memory access | acceso directo a memoria de dispersión o recopilación (A form of direct memory access (DMA) in which data is transferred to and from noncontiguous ranges of physical memory) |
