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Acronym for Novell® NetWare®Loadable Module.

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Abbreviation for nonmaskable interrupt. A device sends an NMI to signal the micro- processor about hardware errors, such as a parity error.

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A technique for decreasing screen flicker by sequentially refreshing each horizontal line on the screen.

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Abbreviation for nanosecond(s), one bil- lionth of a second.

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Abbreviation for the NT File System op- tion in the Windows NT operating system.

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Abbreviation for nonvolatile random- access memory. Memory that does not lose its contents when you turn off your computer. NVRAM is used for maintain- ing the date, time, and system setup options.

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Abbreviation for Operating System/2.

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Communications that do not use the net- work but are passed via modem. The out- of-band path is used for remote manage- ment of a server or for accessing server information when the server or network is down.

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Abbreviation for one-time programmable.

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An I/O port used most often to connect a parallel printer to your computer. You can usually identify a parallel port on your com- puter by its 25-hole connector.

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You can divide a hard-disk drive into mul- tiple physical sections called partitions with the fdisk command. Each partition can contain multiple logical drives. For example, you could partition a 200-MB hard-disk drive into two physically separate partitions with three logical drive assignments, as shown in the following table.

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After partitioning the hard-disk drive, you must format each logical drive with the format command.

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Slightly larger than a credit card, a PC Card is a removable I/O card—such as a mo- dem, LAN, SRAM, or flash memory card—that adheres to the PCMCIA stan- dards. See also PCMCIA.

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Abbreviation for Peripheral Component Interconnect. A standard for local-bus implementation developed by Intel Corporation.

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Abbreviation for Personal Computer Memory Card International Association. See also PC Card.

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Primary Domain Controller. The domain controller that has negotiated to be, or has been assigned as, the primary authentica- tion server for the domain.

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