Negotiation and U.S. ratification. Back row, left to right: Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, U.S. President George H. W. Bush, and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, at the initialing of the draft North American Free Trade Agreement in October 1992.
Direct memory access. Direct memory access (DMA) is a feature of computer systems that allows certain hardware subsystems to access main system memory (RAM), independent of the central processing unit (CPU).
American College of Radiology and the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (ACR-NEMA) Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) was originally created to permit the interchange of biomedical image waveforms and related information through a cooperative effort between ACR and NEMA.