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LPT Port
Line Printer Port. A way of referring to parallel interface ports because historically line printers were
the first and latter the most common device connected to parallel ports.
MAC Address
Media Access Control Address
A unique physical address of a network card.
For Ethernet, the first three bytes are used as the vendor code, controlled and assigned by IEEE. The
remaining three bytes are controlled by each vendor (preventing overlap), therefore, every Ethernet
card is given a unique physical address in the world, being assigned with a different address from
other cards. For Ethernet, frames are sent and received based on this address.
MB
Megabyte.
Megahertz
1,000,000 cycles per second.
Memory
A repository for data and applications which is readily accessible to your notebook CPU.
MHz
Megahertz.
MIDI
Musical Instrument Digital Interface. A standard communication protocol for exchange of information
between computers and sound producers such as synthesizers.
Modem
A contraction for MOdulator-DEModulator. The equipment which connects a computer or other data
terminal to a communication line.
Monaural
A system using one channel to process sound form all sources.
MPU-401
A standard for MIDI interfaces and connectors.
MTU
Maximum Transmission Unit
The maximum data size that can be transferred at a time through the Internet or other networks.
You can set a smaller MTU size to obtain successful communication, if you have difficulty transferring
data due to the fact that the maximum size is too large.
NTSC
National TV Standards Commission. The standard for TV broadcast and reception for the USA.
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