
Driver
A device driver, often called a driver for short, is a program that allows the operating system or some other program to interface correctly with a peripheral device such as a printer or network PC card. Some device drivers, such as network drivers must be loaded from the config.sys file (with a device= statement) or as
DUD (Driver Update Diskette)
Acronym for driver update diskette. A DUD is an image of a diskette stored as a regular file. To use it, you have to create a real diskette from this file. The steps used to create the diskette depend on how the image is supplied.
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Hardware
The mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system constitutes its hardware.
Hot Add/Remove
It is the addition/removal of a component while the system is running and operating normally.
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Link
A connection between any two PCI Express devices is known as a link.
F
Firmware
Software stored in
Flash Memory
Sometimes referred as simply "flash", is a compact,
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MHz
Megahertz or one million cycles per second is a unit of frequency commonly used to measure the operating speed of a computer processor or any other electronic component.
Mirroring
The process of providing complete redundancy using two physical disks, by maintaining an exact copy of one physical disk’s data on the second physical disk. If one physical disk fails, the contents of the other physical disk can be used to maintain the integrity of the system and to rebuild the failed physical disk.
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