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Acronym for Extended Industry-Standard Architecture, a 32-bit expansion-bus de- sign. The expansion-card connectors in an EISA computer are also compatible with 8- or 16-bit ISA expansion cards.

To avoid a configuration conflict when in- stalling an EISA expansion card, you must use the EISA Configuration Utility. This utility allows you to specify which expan- sion slot contains the card and obtains information about the card’s required sys- tem resources from a corresponding EISA configuration file.

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Abbreviation for Electromagnetic Compatibility.

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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.

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Abbreviation for Expanded Memory Specification.

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Acronym for erasable programmable read-only memory.

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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) expanded memory.

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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 internal modem.

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

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RAM above 1 MB. Most software that can use it, such as the Windows operating system, requires that extended memory be under the control of an XMM.

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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.

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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.

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Abbreviation for Federal Communications Commission.

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A type of EEPROM chip that can be reprogrammed from a utility on diskette while still installed in a computer; most EEPROM chips can only be rewritten with special programming equipment.

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

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