Teknor Industrial Computers PCI-934, Technical Reference Manual

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1. PRODUCT OVERVIEW
What is multimedia?
Multimedia is turning out to be one of the most appealing capabilities of a computer.
Running a multimedia application means that a huge amount of hardware and software is
trying to run at the same time, competing for the attention of all system resources. For
example, the hardest thing a PC can do when proceeding tests is to run multimedia
applications.
Sub-systems that make multimedia applications possible are the sound system, CD-ROM
and hard disk drives, speaker, enhanced local-bus video graphics, big screen color monitor,
plenty of memory and finally, the processor.
Working with multimedia requires a computer capable of working fast, smoothly and
reliably. The PCI-934 single board computer meets all these conditions.