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Pager. A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, [1] is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can also acknowledge, reply to, and originate messages using an internal transmitter. [2]
Simple Network Paging Protocol. Simple Network Paging Protocol (SNPP) is a protocol that defines a method by which a pager can receive a message over the Internet. It is supported by most major paging providers, and serves as an alternative to the paging modems used by many telecommunications services. The protocol was most recently described ...
Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol. 1985 MetroMedia IXO Device. Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol (TAP) is an industry-standard protocol for sending short messages via a land-line modem to a provider of pager and/or SMS services, for onward transmission to pagers and mobile phones. [1] [2]
Memory paging. In computer operating systems, memory paging (or swapping on some Unix-like systems) is a memory management scheme by which a computer stores and retrieves data from secondary storage [a] for use in main memory. [citation needed] In this scheme, the operating system retrieves data from secondary storage in same-size blocks called ...
An NEC pager, using POCSAG coding branded for the Skyper network. Radio-paging code No. 1 (usually and hereafter called POCSAG) is an asynchronous protocol used to transmit data to pagers. Its usual designation is an acronym of the P ost O ffice C ode S tandardisation A dvisory G roup, the name of the group that developed the code under the ...
Wireless Communications Transfer Protocol (WCTP) is the method used to send messages to wireless devices such as pagers on NPCS (Narrowband PCS) networks. It uses HTTP as a transport layer over the World Wide Web . Development of WCTP was initiated by the Messaging Standards Committee and submitted to the Radio Paging Community. When the first ...
At that time pagers had a limited range and were used mostly in on-site situations for example to call medical personnel in a hospital. By 1990, wide-area paging had been invented and over 22 million pagers were in use. Their number exploded and by 1994, there were over 61 million pagers in use. Motorola’s Pageboy II Pageboy II
Motorola PageWriter 2000. The Motorola PageWriter 2000 was a two-way pager introduced in 1998. [1] Featuring the 68000 based Motorola DragonBall processor, 1 MB of internal storage, a four color grayscale screen, IrDA transmitter/receiver, and a full QWERTY keyboard the PageWriter represented a combination of both PDA and pager in one package.