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• User interface
  ...some system interacts with a [[user]]. Exactly how will depend on i) the [[hardware]] which is available to pass information to the user ([[printing terminal]] ...] editors when bit-mapped displays became widely available. Similarly, new hardware often enabled a new generation of applications (e.g. [[spread-sheet]]s, [[i
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• Diagnostic
  ...of [[software]] which is designed to test the correct operation of some [[hardware]]. There are two main forms: [[Category: Computer Basics]]
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• Type
  The [[hardware]] usually supports a limited, fixed number of types, but the [[software]] m [[Category: Basics]]
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• Logic
  In the computer world, it is a term used to describe a group of [[digital]] [[hardware]] - collections of [[gate]]s, [[flip-flop]]s, etc. [[Category: Basics]]
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• Memory
  '''Memory''' is technology or [[hardware]] used to retain data to make it available for later use. The term is usual [[Category: Hardware Basics]]
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• Flow control
  ...]], there are a pair of control lines dedicated to doing flow control in [[hardware]] - Request To Send, and Clear To Send. The sender activates RTS when it ha [[Category: Basics]]
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• Buffer
  ...oring data while it is waiting to be used. Buffers may be implemented in [[hardware]] or [[software]]; it might be [[memory]] in a [[device controller]], it mi [[Category: Basics]]
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• Negative logic
  [[Category: Hardware Basics]]
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• Address bus
  [[Category:Hardware Basics]]
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• Data bus
  [[Category:Hardware Basics]]
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• Hardware port
  A '''port''', in [[hardware]] is a means of gaining access to a computer or a sub-system. [[Category:Hardware Basics]]
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• Motherboard
  ...rds, this included cards to connect to [[local area network]]s, hold the [[hardware]] to drive the [[display]], etc, but much of this has now been standardized [[Category: Computer Basics]]
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• Page table
  ...ray]] in most machines, but now often more complex) which is used by the [[hardware]] of the [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]] to do [[virtual memory]]. It provi [[Category: CPU Basics]]
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• Front panel
  [[Category: Hardware Basics]]
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• Open source
  ...y, things other than software are being distributed as open source, e.g. [[hardware]] [[printed circuit board]] designs.) [[Category: Basics]]
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• Channel
  A '''channel''' is a block of [[hardware]] (effectively a [[co-processor]]) which performs [[input/output|I/O]] oper ...r]]s (although the individual PPU's are implemented with one set of shared hardware). The channels of [[International Business Machines|IBM]] mainframes are pr
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• Switch register
  [[Category: Hardware Basics]]
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• Parallel interface
  A '''parallel interface''' (or '''parallel port''') is a [[hardware]] [[port]] which uses many physical [[conductor]]s in parallel (hence the n [[Category: Hardware Basics]]
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• Extended Arithmetic Element
  ...rliest generation of computers) did not provide multiply, divide, etc in [[hardware]], as that would have taken too many [[gate]]s; instead, they were done in [[Category: CPU Basics]]
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• Terminal emulator
  ...ator is running is usually one which has an [[asynchronous serial line]] [[hardware port|port]], although on personal computers now, those are often provided b ...imulator" means software and/or hardware that models some terminal down to hardware detail level. This category of technology has not yet been widely explored
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• Distribution panel
  A '''distribution panel''' is a piece of hardware that converts from a large cable (usually a [[flat cable]]) to a number of [[Category: Device Basics]]
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• Shift register
  [[Category: Hardware Basics]]
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• Serial
  [[Category: Hardware Basics]]
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• Parallel
  [[Category: Hardware Basics]]
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• Grant continuity card
  [[Category: Hardware Basics]]
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• Backup
  ...(usually also called a 'backup') of newly-created data, so that should a [[hardware]] failure occur in the [[peripheral|device]] holding the data, it is not lo [[Category: Basics]]
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• Daughter-board
  [[Category: Hardware Basics]]
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• Floating point accelerator
  ...roinstructions. A floating point accelerator provides additional computing hardware which allows floating point instructions to be executed more quickly, incre [[Category: CPU Basics]]
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• Static RAM
  ...eed to be [[memory refresh|refreshed]], making it simpler to use (at the [[hardware]] level). The lack of refresh also means that it has a constant [[access ti [[Category: Memory Basics]]
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• Display refresh
  ...ay]]s, the [[memory]] in which the image is created is not actually in the hardware which generates the light of the display itself (since that memory needs to [[Category: Device Basics]]
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• Register file
  The typical [[hardware]] implementation in the era in which they became common was a set of small [[Category: Hardware Basics]]
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• Vector processing
  ...ability of [[Central Processing Unit|CPUs]] to provide direct support in [[hardware]] for handling [[array|vectors]] (in the same way that [[floating point]] s [[Category: Computer Basics]]
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• Frame buffer
  A '''frame buffer''' is a [[digital]] [[hardware]] device which implements a [[memory]]—separate from the main memory& [[Category: Device Basics]]
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• Parallel computer
  [[Category: Hardware Basics]]
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