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| IDE | A method of disk drive manufaturing that allocates all the required controller circutry |
| EIDE | Allows for two IDE channels that support two devices . |
| AT Attachment(ATA) | A 16-bit data bus. |
| ATA-33 | An extesion of the ATA interfacethat will effectivly double in the top data transfer. |
| SCSI | Small computer inferfaces for hard drives and CD-Rom devices, it can be used for scanners. |
| Millisecond | A thousandth of a second |
| System Hang | when a program phrase that usually has an oppurtunity to display an error or disanosite message |
| POST | Power on self test, a group of BIOS Roms diagnostic tests that are preformed on each time system starts. |
| Cold Boot | to turn on or restart the comp by turning it off, waiting, then turning it on again. |
| Warm Boot | to restart the comp by using ctrl+atl+delete |
| Boot Disk | a write protected floppy disk the contains the compuers system &startup files |
| Boot Sector | portion of the disk that contains coded indtuctions for the operating system to start the comp |
| Safe mode | a win95 mode that automaticly loads if the system crashes during startup |
| Scanner | a device to copy a physical image and turn it to a digital image |
| LPT1 | label used in MS-DOS assigned to Parrellel port |
| COM1 | a label used in MS-DO assaigned to serial port 1 |
| MTFB | Mean-Time between failures. this i the time normally given in hours, it predicts faliure of a device. |
| Drive Interface | A collecttion of electrical and logical connections between a gard drive and a PC. |
| LUN | Logical Unit Number is a unique identifier for sub-devices assigned to a single SCSI ID. |
| Display Adapter | A PC expansion boar that converts the images created in the computer to the electronic signals required by the monitor. |
| VGA | Stands for Video Graphics Array. The minimum standard for PC video. |
| AT Commands | Short for advanced technology, the AT is an IBM PC model introduced in 1984. It includes an Intel 80286 microprocessor, a 1.2MB floppy drive, and an 84-key AT keyboard. |
| Asycronous | A bit synchronization transmission technique that uses start and stop bits. |
