Glossary
Video Adapter
Also known as Video Controller, this electronic component generates the video signal sent through a cable to a video display. The video adapter is usually located on the computer’s main system board or on an expansion board, but it is sometimes built into the terminal.
W
Warm Start
Restart of a computer in operate state without switching off the power supply (Ctrl + Alt + Del).
WAV
A file format in which Windows stores sounds as waveforms. Such files have the extension .wav.
Windows
Windows is a multitasking graphical user interface environment that runs on
WWW
World Wide Web is the total set of interlinked hypertext documents residing on HTTP servers all around the world. Documents on the World Wide Web, called pages or Web pages, are written in HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), identified by URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) that specify the particular machine and pathname by which a file can be accessed, and transmitted from server to end user under HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol).
Working Memory
The memory in which a program is stored which can be processed. Also known as main memory.
