Personal Computer User's Guide

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Acronym for Extended Industry-Standard
Architecture, a 32-bit expansion-bus de-
sign. The expansion-card connectors in an
EISA computer are also compatible with
8- or 16-bit ISA expansion cards.
To avoid a configuration conflict when in-
stalling an EISA expansion card, you must
use the EISA Configuration Utility. This
utility allows you to specify which expan-
sion slot contains the card and obtains
information about the card’s required sys-
tem resources from a corresponding EISA
configuration file.
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Abbreviation for Electromagnetic
Compatibility.
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Abbreviation for electromagnetic
interference.
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Abbreviation for expanded memory man-
ager. A utility that uses extended memory
to emulate expanded memory on comput-
ers with an Intel386
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or higher
microprocessor.
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Abbreviation for Expanded Memory
Specification.
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Acronym for erasable programmable
read-only memory.
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Abbreviation for electrostatic discharge.
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A technique for accessing RAM above
1 MB. To enable expanded memory on
your computer, you must use an EMM.
You should configure your system to sup-
port expanded memory only if you run
application programs that can use (or re-
quire) expanded memory.
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Your computer contains an expansion bus
that allows the microprocessor to
communicate with controllers for periph-
eral devices, such as a network card or an
internal modem.
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A connector on the computer’s system
board or riser board for plugging in an ex-
pansion card.
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RAM above 1 MB. Most software that can
use it, such as the Windows operating
system, requires that extended memory
be under the control of an XMM.
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A RAM cache using SRAM chips. Be-
cause SRAM chips operate at several
times the speed of DRAM chips, the
microprocessor can retrieve data and in-
structions faster from external cache
memory than from RAM.
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Abbreviation for Fahrenheit.
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Acronym for file allocation table. The file
system structure used by MS-DOS to or-
ganize and keep track of file storage. The
Windows NT and OS/2
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operating sys-
tems can optionally use a FAT file system
structure.
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Abbreviation for Federal Communications
Commission.
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A type of EEPROM chip that can be
reprogrammed from a utility on diskette
while still installed in a computer; most
EEPROM chips can only be rewritten with
special programming equipment.
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To prepare a hard-disk drive or diskette for
storing files. An unconditional format de-
letes all data stored on the disk.
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Abbreviation for feet.
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