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2007-02-09 07:01:02 · 5 answers · asked by JD 1 in Science & Mathematics Physics

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Those are the initials usually preceeding the name P.A.M. Dirac, a nobel-prize winning physicist. The initials stand for Paul Adrien Maurice.

Check out the Wikipedia article. He was one cool dude!

2007-02-09 07:20:16 · answer #1 · answered by hevans1944 5 · 0 0

Pluggable authentication modules or PAM are a mechanism to integrate multiple low-level authentication schemes into a high-level API, which allows for programs that rely on authentication to be written independently of the underlying authentication scheme. PAM were first developed in 1996 by Sun Microsystems, and are currently supported in AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and NetBSD. PAM was later standardized as part of the X/Open UNIX standardization process, resulting in the XSSO standard. Hope that helps. =)

2007-02-10 00:05:03 · answer #2 · answered by redfaction_2004 2 · 0 0

P.A.M. stands for Physics, Astronomy & Math Division of the Special Libraries Association. jhr4games@yahoo.com

2007-02-09 15:17:42 · answer #3 · answered by jhr4games 4 · 0 0

In physics, it stands for Paul Adrien Maurice (Dirac). That's the first thing I thought of anyway. ;)

edit: I was sooo just kidding. I didn't think someone else would answer that, too. I guess you see the initials in books enough times that that's what you automatically associate with.

2007-02-09 15:15:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

PAM stands for Pulse-amplitude modulation.

2007-02-09 15:04:42 · answer #5 · answered by rosellyne.thompson 2 · 0 0

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