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on line: A functional state in which a device is ready to receive or transmit information.
online: Available through the computer. Online may refer to information on the hard disk,
such as online documentation or online help, or a connection, through a
modem, to another computer or the Internet.
online spare: A hard disk drive used in disk mirroring and other fault tolerance techniques
to replace a failed drive without user intervention.
orphaned partitions: These occur in disk mirroring when the drive containing the master
partition fails. If a drive containing a duplicate partition fails, the system marks
the master partition as unmirrored.
operating system: A set of programs that controls how the computer works. Operating
system functions include creating programs and data files, and controlling the
flow of information between the processor, memory and devices. Examples of
operating systems used by computers are MS-DOS, Windows 95 and Novell
NetWare.
operating system disks: The disks containing the operating system. Also known as
system disks.
output: The results of a computer operation. Familiar forms of output are information 1)
printed on paper, 2) displayed on a screen, 3) sent through the serial port or
internal modem, or 4) stored on disk. See also input/output (I/O) .
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palette: In some programs, a palette is a collection of drawing tools, brush widths, line
widths, and colors. In other programs, the palette determines the number of
colors that can be displayed on the screen.
parallel: Two or more processes or events that can happen at the same time without
interfering with each other.
parallel interface: A type of information exchange that simultaneously transmits all the
bits representing a character. It uses a separate line for each data bit in a byte.
In contrast, a serial interface transmits characters along a single data line one
bit at a time, making it much slower than a parallel interface.