Operating instructions

CD-R (compact disc recordable) A type of CD technology that accepts a sin
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gle “burn” but cannot be erased after that one burn.
CD-ROM (compact disc/read-only memory) A read-only compact storage disk
for audio or video data. Recordable devices, such as CD-Rs, are updated versions
of the older CD-ROM players. CD-ROMs are read using CD-ROM drives.
CD-RW (compact disc rewritable) A type of CD technology that accepts mul
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tiple reads/writes like a hard drive.
Celeron A lower-cost CPU based on Intel’s Pentium CPUs.
Centronics connector A connector commonly used with printers.
chipset Electronic chips, specially designed to work together, that handle all
of the low-level functions of a PC. In the original PC the chipset consisted of
close to 30 different chips; today, chipsets usually consist of one, two, or three
separate chips embedded into a motherboard.
CHS (cylinder/heads/sectors per track) The initials for the combination
of the three critical geometries used to determine the size of a hard drive—
cylinders, heads, and sectors per track.
clean installation An operating system installed on a fresh drive, following
a reformat of that drive. A clean install is often the only way to correct a prob-
lem with a system when many of the crucial operating system files have be
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come corrupted.
cleaning kit A set of tools used to clean a device or piece of media.
client A computer program that uses the services of another computer pro
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gram. Software that extracts information from a server; your auto-dial phone is
a client,and the phone company is its server. Also a machine that accesses shared
resources on a server.
client/server A relationship in which client software obtains services from a
server on behalf of a person.
client/server application An application that performs some or all of its pro
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cessing on an application server rather than on the client. The client usually only
receives the result of the processing.
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