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An I/O port used most often to connect a
parallel printer to your computer. You can
usually identify a parallel port on your com-
puter by its 25-hole connector.
A value or option that you specify to a pro-
gram. A parameter is sometimes called a
switch or an argument.
You can divide a hard-disk drive into mul-
tiple physical sections called partitions
with the
fdisk command. Each partition
can contain multiple logical drives. For ex-
ample, you could partition a 2-GB hard-disk
drive into two physically separate parti-
tions with three logical drive assignments,
as shown in the following table.
After partitioning the hard-disk drive, you
must format each logical drive with the
format command.
Slightly larger than a credit card, a PC Card
is a removable I/O card—such as a mo-
dem, LAN, SRAM, or flash memory
card—that adheres to the PCMCIA stan-
dards. See also PCMCIA.
Abbreviation for Peripheral Component
Interconnect. A standard for local-bus im-
plementation developed by Intel
Corporation.
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Abbreviation for Personal Computer
Memory Card International Association.
See also PC Card.
Acronym for primary domain controller.
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Acronym for PowerEdge Expandable
RAID controller.
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An internal or external device—such as a
printer, a disk drive, or a keyboard—con-
nected to a computer.
)
Abbreviation for pin grid array, a type of
microprocessor socket that allows you to
remove the microprocessor chip.
Arranged in rows and columns, a pixel is
a single point on a video display. Video
resolution—640 x 480, for example—is
expressed as the number of pixels across
by the number of pixels up and down.
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Acronym for power-on self-test. Before
the operating system loads when you turn
on your computer, the POST tests various
system components such as RAM, the
disk drives, and the keyboard.
Abbreviation for pages per minute.
1&
Abbreviation for plastic quad flat pack, a
type of microprocessor socket in which
the microprocessor chip is permanently
mounted.
The set of diskettes from which you can
perform a complete installation of an ap-
plication program. When you reconfigure
a program, you often need its program dis-
kette set.
An operating mode supported by 80286
or higher microprocessors, protected
mode allows operating systems to
implement:
Partition 1 - 1.2 GB / Partition
2 - 800 MB
Drive C - 1.2 GB / Drive D - 500 MB /
Drive E - 300 MB