phosphor￿dots￿on￿the￿back￿of￿the￿screen.￿The￿phosphor￿dots￿light￿ up￿to￿show￿the￿image.￿LCDs￿use￿a￿liquid-crystal￿solution￿between￿two￿sheets￿of￿polarizing￿material.￿Electric￿current￿passing￿through￿ the￿liquid￿aligns￿the￿crystals￿so￿that￿light￿can￿or￿cannot￿pass￿ through￿them,￿creating￿an￿image.

MB

1,024￿kilobytes.

Megabit

1,048,576￿bits￿or￿about￿128￿kilobytes.

Operating￿system

A￿program￿that￿supervises￿the￿computer's￿operation,￿including￿ handling￿I/O.￿Application￿programs￿and￿users￿can￿request￿ operating-system￿services.￿A￿user￿might￿request￿operation-system￿services￿to￿copy￿files￿or￿format￿a￿disk.￿An￿application￿program￿ might￿use￿the￿operating￿system￿to￿obtain￿keyboard￿input,￿write￿ data￿to￿a￿file,￿or￿write￿data￿to￿a￿screen.

PC￿Card

PC￿Card￿stands￿for￿personal￿computer￿card.￿The￿Personal￿ Computer￿Memory￿Card￿International￿Association￿(PCMCIA)￿ defines￿the￿standards￿used￿to￿develop￿all￿PC￿Cards.￿PC￿Card￿types￿ include:￿modems,￿Ethernet￿adapters,￿SCSI￿adapters,￿ATA￿cards,￿ and￿memory￿cards.

PC￿slot

The￿PC￿slot￿is￿the￿hardware￿slot￿in￿the￿computer￿where￿the￿PC￿ Card￿is￿placed.￿

Pixel

A￿pixel￿is￿an￿individual￿dot￿in￿a￿graphic￿displayed￿on￿your￿ computer.￿The￿pixels￿are￿so￿close￿together￿that￿they￿look￿as￿though￿ they￿are￿connected.￿An￿LCD￿screen￿displays￿thousands￿or￿millions￿ of￿pixels.￿

Plug￿and￿Play

A￿plug￿and￿play￿operating￿system￿automatically￿configures￿ computer￿components￿to￿work￿with￿your￿system.￿With￿this￿type￿of￿ operating￿system,￿you￿normally￿do￿not￿need￿to￿set￿jumpers￿on￿ devices￿or￿set￿memory￿addresses￿or￿IRQs.

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