Dell WorkStation 210 Technique for accessing RAM above, Abbreviation for Federal Communications

expansion slot contains the card and ob- tains information about the card’s required system resources from a corre- (0&sponding EISA configuration file.

Abbreviation for Electromagnetic (0,Compatibility.

Abbreviation for electromagnetic interference.(00

Abbreviation for expanded memory man- ager. A utility that uses extended memory to emulate expanded memory on comput- ers with an Intel386™ or higher microprocessor.(06

Abbreviation for Expanded Memory Specification.(3520

Acronym for erasable programmable (6'read-only memory.

H[SDQGHGAbbreviationPHPRU\for electrostatic discharge.

A technique for accessing RAM above

1 MB. To enable expanded memory on your computer, you must use an EMM. You should configure your system to sup- port expanded memory only if you run application programs that can use (or re- quire)H[SDQVLRQexpandedEXVmemory.

Your computer contains an expansion bus that allows the microprocessor to communicate with controllers for periph- eral devices, such as a network card or an

H[SDQVLRQinternal modem￿FDUGFRQQHFWRU.

A connector on the computer’s system board or riser board for plugging in an ex- pansion card.

H[WHQGHGPHPRU\

RAM above 1 MB. Most software that can use it, such as the Windows operating system, requires that extended memory H[WHUQDObe under theFDFKHcontrolPHPRU\of an XMM.

A RAM cache using SRAM chips. Be- cause SRAM chips operate at several times the speed of DRAM chips, the microprocessor can retrieve data and in- structions faster from external cache memory than from RAM.

)Abbreviation$7 for Fahrenheit.

Acronym for file allocation table. The file system structure used by MS-DOS to or- ganize and keep track of file storage. The Windows NT and OS/2® operating sys- tems can optionally use a FAT file system )&&structure.

Abbreviation for Federal Communications

IODVKCommissionPHPRU\.

A type of EEPROM chip that can be reprogrammed from a utility on diskette while still installed in a computer; most

EEROM chips can only be rewritten with IRUPDWspecial programming equipment.

To prepare a hard-disk drive or diskette for storing files. An unconditional format de- IWletes all data stored on the disk.

)73Abbreviation for feet.

JAbbreviation for file transfer protocol.

*Abbreviation for gram(s).

Abbreviation for gravities.

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