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| AN AREA TO TEMPORARILY STORE DATA BEFORE TRANSFERRING IT TO A DEVICE |
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| COLUMN ADDRESS SELECT (CAS) |
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| DESCRIBES THE TIME IT TAKES TO ACCESS THE EXACT COLUMN LOCATION IN THE MEMORY MATRIX AFTER (RAS) |
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| THE FIRST 64OKB OF A PC's RAM |
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| DUAL IN-LINE MEMORY MODULE (DIMM) |
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| A MEMORY MODULE IN WHICH THE EDGE CONNECTORS ARE LOCATED DIRECTLY ACROSS THE CIRUIT BOARD FROM EACH OTHER AND DO NOT CONNECT ELECTRICALLY |
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| DUAL IN LINE PACKAGE (DIP) |
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| A MEMORY CHIP THAT HAS TWO ROWS OF CONNECTIONS, ONE ROW PER SIDE OF THE CHIP |
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| A TYPE OF INTERGRATED CIRCUIT THAT UTILIZES CAPACITORS TO ASSIST IN STORING DATA IN THE TRANSISTOR |
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| ELECTRACALLY ERASABLE PROGRAMBLE READ ONLY MEMORY (EEPROM) |
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| READ ONLY MEMORY THAT CAN BE ERASED ELECTRICALLY AND WRITTEN TO MORE THAN ONCE |
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| ERASSABLE PROGRAMMABLE READ ONLY MEMORY (EPROM) |
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| READ ONLY MEMORY THAT CAN BE ERASED WITH AN ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT AND WRITTEN TO MORE THAN ONCE |
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| ERROR CODE CORRECTION (ECC) |
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| AN ALTERNATIVE FORM OF DATA-INTERGRITY CHECKING |
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| A DATA INTERGRITY CHECKING METHOD IN WHICH EVERY TIME THE NUMBER OF BITS COUNTED IS EVEN, AN EXTRA BIT OF DATA IS TRANSMITTED AS A ONE TO INDICATE EVEN |
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| EXPANDED MEMORY STANDARD (EMS) |
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| AN EARLY METHOD TO MOVE PAST THE 1MB MEMORY BARRIER |
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| EXTENDED MEMORY SYSTEM (XMS) |
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| ALL OF THE PC'S MEMORY BEYOND THE FIRST 1MB WHEN THE CPU IS RUNNING IN REAL MODE |
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| WHEN THE PARITY BIT IS ALWAYS SET TO ONE REGARDLESS OF THE TRUE NUMBER OF ONES CONTAINED IN THE BYTE |
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| MEMORY TYPE THAT STORES DATA BUT DOES NOT REQUIRE A POWER SOURCE TO RETAIN THE DATA |
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| ROM THAT CAN BE ERASED IN BLOCKS USING HIGH VOLTAGE |
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| HOW WINDOWS REFERS TO THE ENTIRE MEMORY |
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| THE FIRST 64KB OF THE EXTENDED MEMORY AREA |
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| A TECHNOLOGY THAT ALLOWS A COMPUTER TO BE PLUGGED INTO OUR UNPLUGGED FROM A CMPUTER WHILE THE COMPUTER IS RUNNING, ALSO, THE ACT OF PLUGGING AND UNPLUGGING A DEVICE FROM A COMPUTER WHILE THE COMPUTER IS RUNNING |
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| EQUAL TO ONE BILLIONTH OF A SECOND |
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| A DATA INTERGRITY CHECKING METHOD IN WHICH EVERY TIME THE NUMBER OF BITS COUNTED IS ODD, AN EXTRA BIT OF DATA IS TRANSMITTED AS A ONE TO INDICATE ODD |
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| A FILE THAT IS LOCATED ON A SPECIAL SECTION OF THE HARD DISK DRIVE USED TO SUPPLEMENT RAM |
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| THE COUNTING OF EITHER ODD OR EVEN BITS BEING TRANSMITTED |
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| PROGRAMABLE READ ONLY MEMORY (PROM) |
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| READ ONLY MEMORY THAT CAN BE WRITEN TO ONLY ONCE |
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| RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY (RAM) |
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| A VOLATILE MEMORY SYSTEM INTO WHICH PROGRAMS ARE LOADED. WHEN THE COMPUTER'S POWER IS SHUT OFF, ALL DATA STORED IN RAM IS LOST |
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| MEMORY THAT STORES INFORMATION PERMANENTLY |
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| A MEMORY MODULE THAT INCORPORATES DRIVER AND SYNCHRONIZING ELECTRONIC AS PART OF THE UNIT |
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| ANOTHER TERM FOR UPPER MEMORY |
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| ROW ADDDRESS SELECTION (RAS) |
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| DESCRIBES THE TIME IT TAKES TO START A MEMORY READ OR WRITE TO THE ROW LOCATION IN THE MEMORY MATRIX. RAS IS HE FIRST STEMP OF A MEMORY ACCESS OPERATION |
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| MODE THAT BOOTS THE COMPUTER WITH MINIMUM REQUIRED DDRIVERS AND PROGRAMS TO ALLOW FOR TROUBLE SHOOTTING |
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| SERIAL PRESENCE DETECT (SPD) |
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| A TECHNOLOGY USED TO INDENTIFY THE TYPE OF RAM INSTALLED ON A COMPUTER. IT INVOLVES THE PRESENCE OF AN EXTRA CHIP ON THE MEMORY MODULE THAT CONTAINS TECHNICAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE RAM MODULE. |
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| SINGLE IN-LINE MEMORY MODULE (SIMM) |
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| A MEMORY MODULE CONTAINING A ROW OF DIP MEMORY CHIPS MOUNTED ON A CIRCUIT BOARD |
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| SINGLE IN-LINE PACKAGE (SIP) |
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| A MEMORY CHIP CONAINING A SINGLE ROW OF CONNECTIONS, WHICH RUN ALONG THE LENGTH OF THE CHIP |
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| A STORAGE DEVICE THAT USES FLASH MEMORY CHIPS |
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| A INTERGRATED CIRCUIT USING DIGITAL FLIP-FLOP COMPONENTS. |
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| TERM FOR A PC's MEMORY RANGE BETWEEN 640K AND 1MB |
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| A SECTION OF THE HARD DISK DRIVE RESERVED TO SUPPLEMENT RAM |
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