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Display adapter card

A circuit board that can be installed in one of the computer’s

option slots to provide the monitor interface. The display

adapter card controls the way the monitor displays text and

graphics. (In this computer, a VGA display adapter is built into

the system board.) Also called Video card.

DOS

Disk Operating System. A commonly used operating system

that controls the computer’s input and output functions. See

also Operating system.

Double-density

A type of diskette format that allows you to store twice as

much data as the standard-density format. A

double-density diskette can store 360KB of data. A

double-density diskette can store 720KB of data.

Drive designator

The letter name of a disk drive, followed by a colon-for

example,

C

:.

EGA

Enhanced Graphics Adapter. A type of display adapter card

that allows you to display high-resolution graphics on a

compatible monitor. It can display up to 43 lines of text with

80 characters on each line, or it can display monochrome or

16-color graphics at up to 640 x 350 resolution.

Expanded memory

Memory that specially written MS-DOS application programs

can use with an Expanded Memory Specification (EMS) device

driver such as EMM386.SYS.

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