Apple IIgs - Manual (Page 80)

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resolution: The degree of clarity of your display. A monitor has better resolution than a
television set used as a monitor. An RGB color monitor has better resolution than a composite
color monitor.
Return: A key that you can press to move the cursor to the beginning of the next line. Also
used in many applications to accept choices or indicate that you've finished doing something
and are ready to proceed.
RF modulator: See radio-frequency modulator.
RGB color monitor: Stands for Red Green Blue. A type of color monitor that can do what is
impossible on most types of color monitor display text in color and in 80-column format.
Right Arrow: A key you can press (in most applications) to move the cursor one character to the
right.
ROM: See read-only memory.
ROM disk: ROM chips on a memory expansion card that can contain application programs.
row: A way of designating the number of characters that fit on the computer's display.
run: What applications do when the computer is carrying out their instructions.
SAT: Stands for Scholastic Aptitude Test. Colleges use the results of the SAT to decide if a
student is college material. There are computer applications that help you prepare for the SAT.
save: To store an application or data on a disk, as opposed to storing it temporarily in the
memory of the computer.
scan: What the computer does when you first turn on the power switch. It starts looking
(scanning the slots) for a disk drive controller card. It looks first at slot 7 (or the
corresponding port); if it doesn't find a startup device there, it proceeds to the
next-highest-numbered slot until it finds a startup device.
screen: The part of the monitor where information is displayed. Like a movie screen, it's the
place where things are projected.
scroll: To move a document so you can see a different part of it.
scroll arrow: An arrow on either end of a scroll bar. Clicking the scroll arrow moves the
document one line. Holding down the scroll arrow causes continuous scrolling.
scroll bar: A rectangular bar that may be along the right or bottom of a window. Clicking or
dragging in the scroll bar causes the view of the document to change.
scroll box: The inverse box in a scroll bar. The position of the scroll box in the scroll bar
indicates the position of what's in the window relative to the entire document.
search and replace: To look for a particular word or phrase throughout a document and exchange
it for another word or phrase you specify.
sector: A part of a track. When disks are initialized for DOS 3.3, they are divided into tracks
and sectors.
select: In mouse-based applications, to designate where the next action will take place. To
select something, you click on it or drag across it.