- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 318110
- Number of blossaries: 26
- Company Profile:
An American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing.
The quality of sameness or equivalence, in the case of computers usually referring to an error-checking procedure in which the number of 1s must always be the same --either even or odd-- for each group of bits transmitted without error.
Industry:Software
A portable computer that combines a processor, screen, and keyboard in a single case. The screen folds down onto the keyboard when not in use.
Industry:Software
A mode of setup that allows network administrators to silently deploy to client computers.
Industry:Software
A mode of setup that allows network administrators to silently deploy to client computers.
Industry:Software
A sound emitted by the receiver of a telephone that indicates that a number can be dialed.
Industry:Software
A device used to store information. There are two types of disks. Hard disks are permanent and installed into your computer. Floppy disks are portable and can be inserted into and removed from a floppy disk drive.
Industry:Software
A reusable magnetic storage medium. The floppy disk used today is the rigid 3.5-inch microfloppy that holds 1.44 MB. It is called floppy because the first varieties were housed in bendable jackets.
Industry:Software
A meaningful shorthand that makes it easier to understand the purpose of a cell reference, constant, formula, or table, each of which may be difficult to comprehend at first glance.
Industry:Software