Glossary
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level 2 cache: See cache.Light Emitting Diode (LED): A semiconductor device that emits light when a current is applied.
Liquid Crystal Display (LCD): Liquid crystal sealed between two sheets of glass coated with transparent conducting material. The viewing- side coating is etched into character forming segments with leads that extend to the edge of the glass. Applying a voltage between the glass sheets alters the brightness of the liquid crystal.
LSI: Large Scale Integration. 1) A technology that allows the inclusion of up to 100,000 simple logic gates on a single chip. 2) An integrated circuit that uses the large scale integration.
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magiCDisc: A TOSHIBA utility that lets you create a
main board: See motherboard.
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MDA: Monochrome Display Adaptor. A video display protocol defined by the IBM Monochrome Display Adaptor and its associated circuitry for direct drive TTL displays that supports a monochrome 720x350 text mode.
megabyte (MB): A unit of data storage equal to 1024 kilobytes. See also kilobyte.
megahertz: A unit of wave frequency that equals 1 million cycles per second. See also hertz.
Memory Stick: An IC recording media designed to record various kinds of digital content such as still and moving images, music and computer data on a single stick.
menu: A software interface that displays a list of options on the screen. Also called a screen.
microprocessor: A hardware component contained in a single integrated circuit that carries out instructions. Also called the central processing unit (CPU), one of the main parts of the computer.
million byte: A unit of data storage equal to 1,000,000 bytes.
MMX: Refers to microprocessors with additional instructions beyond the x86 standard. The instructions were developed on the basis of multimedia code requirements and thus improve the performance of multimedia applications.
mode: A method of operation, for example, the boot mode, standby mode or the hibernation mode.
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