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Lithium ion battery
A type of rechargeable battery which is not sub-
ject to the memory effect that Nickel Cadmium
batteries are and which have a high power-time
life for their size.
LPT Port
Line Printer Port.A way of referring to parallel
interface ports because historically line printers
were the first and latter the most common
device connected to parallel ports.
MB
Megabyte.
Megabyte
1,048,576 bytes (2 raised to the twentieth
power).
Megahertz
1,000,000 cycles per second.
Memory
A repository for data and applications which is
readily accessible to your computer CPU.
A p p e n d i c e s
MHz
Megahertz.
MIDI
Musical Instrument Digital Interface.A stan-
dard communication protocol for exchange of
information between computers and sound
producers such as synthesizers.
MMX Technology
MMX technology is an Intel processor enhance-
ment that improves multimedia and communi-
cation applications. The Pentium processor with
MMX technology boasts three primary architec-
tural design enhancements: 57 powerful new
instructions specifically designed to manipulate
and process video, audio and graphical data effi-
ciently; Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
enabling one instruction to perform the same
function on multiple pieces of data; and more L1
cache for a total of 32KB.
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Modem
A contraction for MOdulator-DEModulator.
The equipment which connects a computer or
other data terminal to a communication line.
Monaural
A system using one channel to process sound
from all sources.
MPEG Compression
Moving Pictures Experts Goup - An organization
under the International Standards Organization
which is tasked with generating standards for
digital video and audio data compression.
MPEG-1
The first standard developed by MPEG which
defined coding for a combined audio-visual
signal at a rate of 1.5Mbit/sec. It is intended
to process video with a source resolution of
352 x 240 pixels at 30 frames/sec, one fourth
the resolution of broadcast television.
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