meaning of gates

1. Gates Bill Gates gateway 1. A deprecated term for a device that enables data to flow between different networks forming an internet. Preferred terms are "protocol converter" connects networks that use different protocols, "router" connects two broadcast networks at layer 3 network layer. Another example is a mail gateway, which is a layer 7 application layer gateway. 2. An interface between an information source and a World-Wide Web server. Common Gateway Interface is a standard for such interfaces. The information source can be any system that can be accessed by a program running on the web server. A typical example is a relational database.
2. United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States born in 1955

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