GLOSSARY
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USB
USB is an acronym for Universal Serial Bus. USB can connect computer peripherals such as mice, keyboards, digital cameras, printers, personal media players, flash drives, Network Adapters, and external hard drives. For the most part, USB has made interfaces such as serial and parallel ports obsolete.
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VESA
VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association) is an international standards entity for computer graphics. The initial goal of VESA was to produce a standard for the 800 x 600 SVGA resolution displays. However, the VESA standard
has produced several standards which relate to the function of video devices on personal computers. DisplayPort is also a VESA technology that supports connections to digital displays.
VGA
Video Graphics Array (VGA) initially refers to the display hardware which was introduced with the IBM PS/2 line of computers in 1987. However, it is also used to define the
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