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Toshiba Tecra 8100 User Manual

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Glossary 8

User's Manual

Tecra 8100 User's Manual – 8100_UK.DOC – ENGLISH – Printed on 13/12/99 as IM8100UK

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level 2 cache: See cache.
Light Emitting Diode (LED): A semiconductor device that emits light

when a current is applied.

Liquid Crystal Display (LCD): Liquid crystal sealed between two sheets

of glass coated with transparent conducting material. The viewing-

side coating is etched into character forming segments with leads

that extend to the edge of the glass. Applying a voltage between

the glass sheets darkens the liquid crystal to provide contrast to

lighted portions of the display.

LSI: Large Scale Integration. 1) A technology that allows the inclusion of

up to 100,000 simple logic gates on a single chip. 2) An integrated

circuit that uses the large scale integration.

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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.

MaxTime: A Toshiba utility that lets you set the parameters for various

power-saving functions.

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 (GB): 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.