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Glossary
ASCII (as’kee)—astandardizedandcommonlyacceptednumericalcode
thatrepresentsletters,numbers,andsymbols,as wellas command
sets.ASCII stands for AmericanStandard Codefor Information
Interchange.
Baud— ameasu~ of the speed at which information is transmitted. The
baudrate, which is set for serial transmissions, is approximately the
number of characters transmitted per second multiplied by 10.
Byte —aseries of 8bitsthat representsonecharacter.
Centronics interface —astandardwiringconfigurationforparalleldata
transmission.Centronicsis oftenusedas asynonymfortheparallel
standarddevelopedbyCentronicsInc.
Character Set—the completesetof charactersavailablein afont.
Data Bits—the numberofbits inatransmittedbytethatactuallycontains
data.
EEPROM —Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory. It
hasan internal switchto permit auser to erase the contents and write
new contents into it by means of electrical signals.
EP-L Cartridge —Adisposabletypeofprocesscartridgewhichcontains
thephotosensitivedrumandtoner.
Emulation —behavinglikesomethingelse. TheStar LaserPrinter4can
emulate,orbehavelike twoother printers,theEpson EX-850and
theHP LaserJetIIP laser printer.
ExpansionRAMboard— An availableoptionthatiseasilyattachedtothe
LaserPrinter4toexpandits RAMto amaximumof 5MB. Three
kinds of memoryexpansion board are available:aIMB RAM
board,a2MBRAM boardand a4MBRAMboard.
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