NEC VERSA LITEPAD TABLET PC, Manual

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Glossary 7
MIDI
Musical Instrument Digital Interface. A standard serial bus, digital
interface designed to connect electronic musical devices. MIDI
has no innate sound of its own.
MIR
Medium Infrared, an infrared technology that sends data at 1.152
Mbit/second (1,152,000 bits per second).
mode
A method of operation; for example, the NEC Versa LitePad
tablet PC operates in either normal or power-saving modes.
modem
MOdulator-DEModulator. A device that links computers over a
telephone line.
MPEG
The MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) standard is used to
encode motion images. The MPEG player program in Windows
lets you play back MPEG files.
multimedia
Integrated forms of media such as sound, text, graphics, and video.
N
nonvolatile memory
Storage media that retains its data when system power is turned
off. Nonvolatile memory in the Versa LitePad tablet PC is a
complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) chip that is
backed up by an internal battery. The backup battery preserves the
clock/calendar data and system configuration parameters stored in
CMOS. See volatile memory.
O
operating system
Set of programs that manage the overall operation of the
computer.