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SAM

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(1) (Security Accounts Manager) The part of Windows NT that manages the database of usernames, passwords and permissions. A SAM resides in each server as well as in each domain controller. See PDC and trust relationship.

(2) (Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh) A popular Macintosh antivirus program from Symantec Corporation, Cupertino, CA.

(3) See sequential access method.

1.SAM - System Account Manager
2.(tool)sam - A multi-file screen editor with structural regular expressions. Sam runs under the X Window System.
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Sam pulled over, therefore, under the lee of Manhattan Island, and, coasting along, came to a snug nook, just under a steep, beetling rock, where he fastened his skiff to the root of a tree that shot out from a cleft, and spread its broad branches like a canopy over the water.
Adventure of the Black Fisherman by Irving, Washington View in context
"You've beaten me, Sam," he said, "for it's all true, and I won't cast it up to you any more about the police; it was the look in that horse's eye that came over me.
Black Beauty by Sewell, Anna View in context
My black boy Sam was similarly affected, even in a greater degree, but I reckon more by my son's manner than by anything he had himself observed.
Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
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