Toshiba Satellite 2650 - Manual (Page 199)

User's Manual Glossary 9
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Satellite 2610/2650 User's Manual – GLOSSARY.DOC – ENGLISH – Printed on 18/09/99 as GL_261UK
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magiCDisc: A Toshiba utility that lets you create a CD-ROM data base
for quick access to CD-ROM data.
main board: See motherboard.
maths co-processor: A circuit built into the processor that is dedicated
to intensive math calculations.
MDA: Monochrome Display Adaptor. A video display protocol defined
by the IBM Monochrome Display Adaptor and its associated
circuitry for direct drive TTL displays that supports a monochrome
720x350 text mode.
megabyte (MB): A unit of data storage equal to 1024 kilobytes.
See
also kilobyte.
megahertz: A unit of wave frequency that equals 1 million cycles per
second.
See also hertz.
menu: A software interface that displays a list of options on the screen.
Also called a screen.
microprocessor: A hardware component contained in a single
integrated circuit that carries out instructions. Also called the
central processing unit (CPU), one of the main parts of the
computer.
million byte: A unit of data storage equal to 1,000,000 bytes.
MMX: Refers to microprocessors with additional instructions beyond the
x86 standard. The instructions were developed on the basis of
multimedia code requirements and thus improve the performance
of multimedia applications.
mode: A method of operation, for example, the boot mode or the
resume mode.
monitor: A device that uses rows and columns of pixels to display
alphanumeric characters or graphic images.
See also CRT.
motherboard: A name sometimes used to refer to the main printed
circuit board in processing equipment. It usually contains
integrated circuits that perform the processor’s basic functions and
provides connectors for adding other boards that perform special
functions. Sometimes called a main board.
MPEG: Moving picture coding expert group is an industry standard
architecture for compression of video signals.