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bits per second
— The speed at which your computer
receives or sends data to a device such as a modem or
serial printer.
boot
— To start your computer; also called
start-up
and
power-up
.
bps
— See
bits per second
.
brightness control
— A control that allows you to adjust the
brightness of the display.
buffer
— A portion of the computer’s memory that
temporarily holds information used by a program; for
example, the portion of a document you are working on
while using a word processor.
bug
— An error in the hardware or software of your
computer that causes an operation to perform incorrectly.
byte
— A grouping of eight binary digits (bits) that your
computer treats as one unit; usually represents one character.
cache
— A software device that accumulates copies of
recently used disk sectors in
RAM.
The application program
can then read these copies without accessing the disk,
thereby increasing performance.
central processing unit (
CPU
)
— The electronic circuits in
your computer where most processing of information takes
place.
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Summary of Contents for TravelMate 4000M
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Page 230: ...Code Page 850 Multilingual Character Sets Character Sets B 3 ...
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