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An internal or external device—such as a printer, a disk drive, or a keyboard—con- nected to a computer.

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Abbreviation for pin grid array, a type of microprocessor socket that allows you to remove the microprocessor chip.

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Arranged in rows and columns, a pixel is a single point on a video display. Video resolution—640 x 480, for example—is expressed as the number of pixels across by the number of pixels up and down.

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Acronym for power-on self-test. Before the operating system loads when you turn on your computer, the POST tests various system components such as RAM, the disk drives, and the keyboard.

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Abbreviation for pages per minute.

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Abbreviation for plastic quad flat pack, a type of microprocessor socket in which the microprocessor chip is permanently mounted.

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A synonym for the MS-DOS device name LPT1.

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The set of diskettes from which you can perform a complete installation of an ap- plication program. When you reconfigure a program, you often need its program dis- kette set.

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An operating mode supported by 80286 or higher microprocessors, protected mode allows operating systems to implement:

‡A memory address space of 16 MB (80286 microprocessor) to 4 GB (Intel386 or higher microprocessor)

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‡Virtual memory, a method for increasing addressable memory by using the hard-disk drive

The Windows NT 32-bit operating system runs in protected mode. MS-DOS cannot run in protected mode; however, some programs that you can start from MS-DOS—such as Windows—are able to put the computer into protected mode.

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Abbreviation for Personal System/2.

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Abbreviation for power-supply paralleling board.

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Abbreviation for polyvinyl chloride.

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Abbreviation for quarter-inch cartridge.

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Acronym for redundant arrays of indepen- dent disks. This phrase was introduced by David Patterson, Garth Gibson, and Randy Katz at the University of California at Ber- keley in 1987. The goal of RAID is to use multiple small, inexpensive disk drives to provide high storage capacity and perfor- mance while maintaining or improving the reliability of the disk subsystem.

Patterson, Gibson, and Katz described five different methods, which are known as RAID levels 1 through 5. Each level uses one or more extra drives to provide a means of recovering data lost when a disk fails, so that the effective failure rate of the whole disk subsystem becomes very low.

Recently, Katz has defined a sixth meth- od, RAID 6, which improves reliability even further, and a configuration that pro- vides no data recovery has popularly become known as RAID 0.

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RAID 0 is commonly called striping. This was not originally defined as a RAID level but has since come into popular use. In this array configuration, data is written

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