beautypg.com

Toshiba NB200 User Manual

Page 140

background image

User’s Manual

Glossary-13

Glossary

resolution: A measure of the sharpness of the images that can be

produced by a printer or displayed on a screen. For a printer,

resolution is expressed in dots per inch (dpi). For a screen, it is

expressed as the number of pixels available horizontally and

vertically

restart: Resetting a computer without turning it off (also called "warm

boot", "soft reset" or "reboot"). See also boot.

RGB: Red, green and blue. A device that uses three input signals, each

activating an electron gun for a primary additive color (red, green

and blue) or port for using such a device. See also CRT.

RJ11: A modular telephone jack.
RJ45: A modular LAN jack.

S

S/P DIF: A standard of digital interface for audio.
SCSI: Small Computer System Interface is an industry standard interface

for connection of a variety of peripheral devices.

SD/SDHC memory card: Secure Digital cards are flash memory widely

used in a variety of digital devices such as digital cameras and

Personal Digital Assistants.

SECAM L: SECAM (Sequential Color Memory) is a broadcasting standard

used in France.

SIO: Serial Input/Output. The electronic methodology used in serial data

transmission.

soft key: Key combinations that emulate keys on the IBM keyboard,

change some configuration options, stop program execution, and

access the numeric keypad overlay.

software: The set of programs, procedures and related documentation

associated with a computer system. Specifically refers to computer

programs that direct and control the computer system activities.

See also hardware.

stop bit: One or more bits of a byte that follow the transmitted character or

group codes in asynchronous serial communications.

synchronous: Having a constant time interval between successive bits,

characters or events.

system disk: A diskette that contains the operating system files needed to

start the computer. Any diskette can be formatted as a system disk.

A system disk is also called a "bootable disk", "boot disk" or a

"startup disk." Compare non-system disk.