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Acronym for Extended Industry-Standard
Architecture, a 32-bit expansion-bus
design. The expansion-card connectors in
an EISA computer are also compatible
with 8- or 16-bit ISA expansion cards.
To avoid a configuration conflict when
installing an EISA expansion card, you
must use the EISA Configuration Utility.
This utility allows you to specify which
expansion slot contains the card and
obtains information about the card’s
required system resources from a
corresponding EISA configuration file.
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Abbreviation for Electromagnetic
Compatibility.
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interference.
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Abbreviation for expanded memory
manager. A utility that uses extended
memory to emulate expanded memory
on computers with an Intel386
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or higher
microprocessor.
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Abbreviation for Expanded Memory
Specification.
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read-only memory.
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A technique for accessing RAM above
1 MB. To enable expanded memory on
your computer, you must use an EMM.
You should configure your system to
support expanded memory only if you run
application programs that can use
(or require) expanded memory.
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Your computer contains an expansion bus
that allows the microprocessor to
communicate with controllers for
peripheral devices, such as a network
card or an internal modem.
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A connector on the computer’s system
board or riser board for plugging in an
expansion card.
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RAM above 1 MB. Most software that can
use it, such as the Windows operating
system, requires that extended memory
be under the control of an XMM .
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A RAM cache using SRAM chips.
Because SRAM chips operate at several
times the speed of DRAM chips, the
microprocessor can retrieve data and
instructions faster from external cache
memory than from RAM.
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Abbreviation for Fahrenheit.
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Acronym for file allocation table. The file
system structure used by MS-DOS to
organize and keep track of file storage.
The Windows NT and OS/2
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operating
systems can optionally use a FAT file
system structure.
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Abbreviation for Federal Communications
Commission.
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A type of EEPROM chip that can be
reprogrammed from a utility on diskette
while still installed in a computer; most
EEPROM chips can only be rewritten with
special programming equipment.
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To prepare a hard-disk drive or diskette for
storing files. An unconditional format
deletes all data stored on the disk.
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Abbreviation for file transfer protocol.