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| IDE | Stands for Intelligent Drive Electronics. |
| Enhanced IDE | Allows for two IDE channels that can support two drivers |
| AT Attachment | More commonly known as IDE, the AT refers to IBM-AT com |
| ATA-33 | An extension to the ATA interface that will allow for transfer speeds to be 33 MPBS |
| SCSI | Stands for small computer standard inrterface, used for hard drives. |
| Millisecond | One thousanth of a second. usually used to measure the acces speed of hard drives |
| System Hang | When a program fails is has a chance to display an error message or if the entire system fails you have to turn it off to restart |
| POST | Stands for power on self test, performed on the system each time it is booted up |
| Cold Boot | To turn on or restart a computer by simply turning it off waiting a few seconds and turning it back on again. |
| Warm boot | To restart(Reset) a computer by pressing CTRL-ALT-DELETE |
| Boot Disk | A write protected floppy disk that contains the computers system and startup files |
| Boot Sector | A portion of a disk that contains the coded instructions for the operating system to start the computer. |
| Safe mode | This is in windows 95, a mode that loads when windows crashes or doesnt load up |
| Scanner | A device used to open an image from a photo or phisical source (such as a photograph) into a computer |
| LPT1 | The label used in ms-dos assigned to parrelel port 1 |
| Com 1 | The label used in ms-dos assigned to serial port 1 |
| MTBF | Mean time between failures. this is a time, normally given in hours, that predicts the failure of a device. |
| Drive interface | interface for older and newer drives on older systems. |
| VGA | Stands for video graphics array. |
| Display adapter | A pc expansion board that converts the images created in the computer to the electronics signals requires by the monitor |
| LUN | (Logical Unit Number) The physical number of a device in a daisy chain of drives. |
| AT commands | A series of machine instructions used to activate features on an intelligent modem. |
| Asychrounous | Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. |
