Fujitsu 990TX2 Lithium ion battery, LPT Port, Megabyte, Megahertz, Midi, MMX Technology, Modem

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A p p e n d i c e s

LBA

Logical Block Addressing. A method of locating data stored on a disk.

LCD

Liquid Crystal Display. A type of display which makes images by controlling the orientation of crystals in a crystalline liquid.

Lithium ion battery

A type of rechargeable battery which is not sub- ject to the memory effect that Nickel Cadmium batteries are and which have a high power-time life for their size.

LPT Port

Line Printer Port.A way of referring to parallel interface ports because historically line printers were the first and latter the most common device connected to parallel ports.

MB

Megabyte.

Megabyte

1,048,576 bytes (2 raised to the tw entieth power).

Megahertz

1,000,000 cycles per second.

Memory

A repository for data and applications which is readily accessible to your computer CPU.

MHz

Megahertz.

MIDI

Musical Instrument Digital Interface.A stan- dard communication protocol for exchange of information between computers and sound producers such as synthesizers.

MMX Technology

MMX technology is an Intel processor enhance- ment that improves multimedia and communi- cation applications. The Pentium processor with MMX technology boasts three primary architec- tural design enhancements: 57 powerful new instructions specifically designed to manipulate and process video, audio and graphical data effi- ciently; Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) enabling one instruction to perform the same function on multiple pieces of data; and more L1 cache for a total of 32KB.

Modem

A contraction for MOdulator-DEModulator. The equipment which connects a computer or other data terminal to a communication line.

Monaural

A system using one channel to process sound from all sources.

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