| A | B |
|---|
| Floppy Drive | Makes storing portable and writes to a floppy disk. |
| Hard Drive | The long term memory of the computer. It reads and writes to a hard disk and is divided into gigabytes. |
| Motherboard | The backbone of the computer. Holds the CPU and all the other circuitry. |
| Motherboard |  |
| Hard Drive |  |
| IRQ | hardware lines that are used to identify when a device wants to communicate |
| DMA | Allows direct access to system memory |
| /proc/iomem | Command that provides a text file of I/O addresses |
| SATA | Will be the standard for PC-based drives |
| NIC | Translator between the computer and the network |
| DVD | High capacity storage that uses pits and lands. |
| Active Partition | Contains files necessary to boot an operating system |
| NTFS | Allows permissions to be applied to files and folders |
| dump command | Allows you to back up files and directories on a Linux machine |
