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Glossary
H A R D W A R E
R E F E R E N C E
TB or TByte
(Terabyte) Approximately one thousand billion (US) or one billion (Great Britain) bytes.
2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes exactly.
UED
(User Editable Drive) A feature of the NY1210’s Phoenix NuBIOS. When a “User” type
hard disk drive setting shows in the IDE Adapter Sub-Menu the BIOS queries the hard
disk drive for the purpose of retrieving disk geometry. If the hard disk drive is capable of
providing this information, the BIOS uses it to automatically set up the drive for use
with the system.
VESA
(Video Electronics Standards Association) A group of hardware and software vendors
that define specifications for hardware and software interfaces for a variety of devices.
VGA
(Video Graphics Adapter) A popular PC graphics controller and display adapter
standard developed by IBM. The standard specifies, among other things, the resolution
capabilities of the display device. Display devices meeting the VGA standard must be
capable of displaying a minimum resolution of 640 horizontal pixels by 480 vertical
pixels with at least 16 screen colors.
wait wtate
A period of one or more microprocessor clock pulses during which the CPU suspends
processing while waiting for data to be transferred to or from the system data or
address buses.
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