| A | B |
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| Adapter | The circuitry required to support a specific device |
| Interrupt | A signal informing a program that an event has occured |
| Jumper | A metal bridge that closes an electrical circuit |
| DMA | Abbreviation for Direct Memory Access for transfering memory or data without passing through the CPU first |
| AGP | Short for Accelerated Graphics Port a new interface specification developed by Intel. |
| I/O Address | Short for input output, transferes data to or from a computer and to or from a peripheral device |
| Bus | A parellel collection of conductors that carry data of control signals from one unit to another |
| Data Bus | A pathway linking CPU to memory and i/o devices |
| Address Bus | Data generated by the CPU and other i/o devices on the computer. |
| PC Bus | Origanally 8-bit but expanded to 16-bit. |
| ISA | Industry standard architecture 8 and 16-bit connectors used in p.c's |
| EISA | Extended ISA.16-bit extended to 32-bit. |
| PCI | Peripheral system interconnect. high performance 16-34-bit bus |
| Plug and Play | Supposed to make peripherals as easy as plugging in and playing |
| Bandwidth | Measure in bits per secondof account of data that can be sent over a perticular medium |
| Bus Master | Any class of microcomputer unit with ability to take over unit of system bus |
| Bus Speed | Measurement usually by Mhz, of how many times data can be transferred. Bus per second. |
| Expansion slot | Any type of slot on a computer you can plug expansion cards into. |
| Legacy | Previous, major generation of hardware and/or software that continues to be used |
| Firewire (IEEE 1394) | High speed serial bus by apple and T.I. that allows for connection of up to 63 devices |
