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if your computer will not boot from the hard- disk drive.

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Abbreviation for bits per inch.

ESV

Abbreviation for bits per second.

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Abbreviation for British thermal unit.

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A bus forms an information pathway be- tween the components of a computer. Your computer contains an expansion bus that allows the microprocessor to com- municate with controllers for all the various peripheral devices connected to the computer. Your computer also con- tains an address bus and a data bus for communications between the micro- processor and RAM.

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Eight contiguous bits of information, the basic data unit used by your computer.

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Abbreviation for Bundesamt fur Zulassun- gen in der Telekommunikation.

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Abbreviation for Celsius.

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To facilitate quicker data retrieval, a stor- age area for keeping a copy of data or instructions. For example, your comput- er’s BIOS may cache ROM code in faster RAM. Or, a disk-cache utility may reserve RAM in which to store frequently access- ed information from your computer’s disk drives; when a program makes a request to a disk drive for data that is in the cache, the disk-cache utility can retrieve the data from RAM faster than from the disk drive.

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On the bottom of an expansion card, the metal-contact section that plugs into an expansion-card connector.

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Abbreviation for computer-based training.

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Abbreviation for cold cathode fluorescent tube.

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Abbreviation for compact disc read-only memory. CD-ROM drives use optical technology to read data from compact discs. Compact discs are read-only stor- age devices; you cannot write new data to a compact disc with standard CD-ROM drives.

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Abbreviation for color graphics adapter.

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Common Internet File System. A protocol for networking PCs.

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A computer that shares files on a filer.

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Abbreviation for comprehensive input/ output.

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Abbreviation for centimeter(s).

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Acronym for complementary metal-oxide semiconductor. In computers, CMOS memory chips are often used for NVRAM storage.

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The MS-DOS device names for the first through fourth serial ports on your com- puter are COM1, COM2, COM3, and COM4. MS-DOS supports up to four serial ports. However, the default interrupt for COM1 and COM3 is IRQ4, and the default interrupt for COM2 and COM4 is IRQ3. Therefore, you must be careful when con- figuring software that runs a serial device so that you don’t create an interrupt conflict.

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