| A | B |
| IDE | A method of disk drive manufactuing that |
| Enhanced IDE (EIDE) | Alows for two IDE channels that can each |
| AT Attachment (ATA) | More commonly known as IDE, the "AT" |
| ATA-33 | An extention to the ATA inteface (IDE) |
| SCSI | A standerd data path used mostly for har |
| Millisecond | One thousandth of a second usually used to mesure |
| System Hang | When a program fails, it usally has opportunity |
| POST | A group of Rom Bios diagnostic test that |
| Cold Boot | to turn on your computer, or to restart a computer by |
| Warm Boot | To restart (reset) a computer by pressing Ctrl Alt Delet |
| Boot Disk | A write-producted floppy disk that contains th computer |
| Boot Sector | A portion of a disk that contains the coded instrutions |
| Safe Mode | This is a windows 95 mode that is automatically |
| Scanner | A device used to copy an image from a physical sources |
| LPT1 | The lable used in ms-dos assigned to parellel ports |
| COM 1 | The lable used in ms-dos assigned to serial ports |
| MTBF | This is a time normaly given in hours, that predicts |