beautypg.com

Toshiba Portege S100 User Manual

Page 209

background image

User’s Manual

Glossary-13

Glossary

T

terminal: A typewriter-like keyboard and CRT display screen connected to

the computer for data input/output.

TFT display: A liquid crystal display (LCD) made from an array of liquid

crystal cells using active-matrix technology with thin film transistor

(TFT) to drive each cell.

Touch Pad: A pointing device integrated into the TOSHIBA computer palm

rest.

TTL: Transistor-transistor logic. A logic circuit design that uses switching

transistors for gates and storage.

U

Universal Serial Bus: This serial interface lets you communicate with

several devices connected in a chain to a single port on the

computer.

V

VGA: Video Graphics Array is an industry standard video adaptor that lets

you run any popular software.

volatile memory: Random access memory (RAM) that stores information

as long as power is supplied to the computer.

W

warm start: Restarting or resetting a computer without turning it off.
window: A portion of the screen that can display its own application,

document or dialog box. Often used to mean a Microsoft Windows

window.

Wireless LAN: Local Area Network (LAN) through wireless

communication.

write protection: A method for protecting a floppy disk from accidental

erasure.