Lenovo ThinkPad 560Z Notebook PC Model 560Z manual Glossary, 167

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Glossary

This glossary includes terms and applications, a form of graphics in an definitions from IBMthe Dictionary ofarea of computer memory or storage that Computing (New York: McGraw-Hill, can be displayed as an image.

1994).

boot . To prepare a computer system for

ac .

Alternating

current.

operation by loading an operating

ac power .

system.

Power

that

is

supplied

to

the

computer

through

an

electrical

outletbps ..

Bits per second. In serial

ANSI

.

American

National

Standards

transmission,

the

instantaneous

bit

speed

with

which

a

device

or

channel

transmits

Institute.

a

character.

APM

.

Advanced

Power

Management. bus .

A facility for transferring data

application

program

between several devices located between

.

A

program

thattwo end points, only one device being

performs specific tasks on your able

to

transmit

at

a

given

moment.

computer,

such

as

word

processing

or

the

creation

of

spreadsheets.

cache

memory

.

A

special

memory,

ASCII

.

American

National

Standard

smaller

and

faster

than

main

memory,

that

is

used

to

hold

a copy

of

instructions

Code

for

Information

Interchange.

in

main

memory

that

are

likely

and data

ATA

PC

Card

.

A

PC

Card

with

an

to

be

needed

next

by

the

processor, and

AT

attachment

hard

disk

drive

that have been obtained automatically

interface,

memory.

such

as

a

storage

device

PC

from

main

Card.

AUTOEXEC.BAT

.

A

file

that

CD-i .

Compact

disc-interactive.

contains

a

startup

procedure

of

DOS. Each

time

.

Keys

that have

combination keys

you

start

your

system,

DOS

performs

the

functions

when

you

hold

them

specific

commands

that

are

stored

in

this

file.

the

same

time.

down

at

backup

copy

.

A

copy,

usually

of

a

file

.

A file that contains a

CONFIG.SYS

or

group

of

files,

that

is

kept

in

case

the

group of commands to load installable

original

file

or

files

are

unintentionally

changed

or

destroyed.

device drivers and reserve space in

system

memory

for

information

BIOS

(Basic

Input/Output

System)

.

processing. This

file

is

referred

to by

DOS

during

system

startup.

Microcode that contains such basic

hardware

operations

as

interactions

with

.

(1)

The

manner

in

which

configuration

diskette

drives,

hard

disk

drives,

and

the

keyboard.

the hardware and software of an

information

processing

system

are

bitmap graphics

.

(1)

A

form

of

organized

and

interconnected. (2)

The

graphics

and

logical

arrangement

of

in

which

all

points

on

the

physical

display

are

directly

addressable.

(2)

In

devices and programs that make up a

multimedia

system.

(3)

The

devices

data

processing

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