Toshiba Satellite M40 User Manual page 190

delete: To remove data from a disk or other data storage device.
device driver: A program that controls communication between a specific
dialog box: A window that accepts user input to make system settings or
disk drive: The device that randomly accesses information on a disk and
disk storage: Storing data on magnetic disk. Data is arranged on
diskette: A removable disk that stores magnetically encoded data used on
diskette drive: An electromechanical device that reads and writes to
display: A CRT, plasma screen, LCD, or other image producing device
documentation: The set of manual and/or other instructions written for the
DOS: Disk operating system. See operating system.
driver: A software program, generally part of the operating system, that
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echo: To send back a reflection of the transmitted data to the sending
EGA: Enhanced Graphics Adapter. A video display protocol defined by the
erase: See delete.
escape: 1) A code (ASCII code 27), signaling the computer that what
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Synonymous with erase.
peripheral device and the computer. The CONFIG.SYS file contains
device drivers that MS-DOS loads when you turn the computer on.
record other information.
copies it to the computer's memory. It also writes data from memory
to the disk. To accomplish these tasks, the unit physically rotates the
disk at high speed past a read-write head.
concentric tracks much like a phonograph record.
a microcomputer. Also called floppy disk.
floppy disks. See also diskette.
used to view computer output.
users of a computer system or application. Computer system
documentation typically includes procedural and tutorial information
as well as system functions.
controls a specific piece of hardware (frequently a peripheral device
such as a printer or mouse).
device. You can display the information on the screen, or output it to
the printer, or both. When a computer receives back data it
transmitted to a CRT (or other peripheral device) and then
retransmits the data to the printer, the printer is said to echo the
CRT.
IBM Enhanced Graphics Adapter and its associated circuitry for
direct drive TTL displays that supports 16-colour/monochrome
640x350 and 16-colour 640x200 and 320x200 graphics, and 16-
colour 640x350 and 320x350 text modes.
follows are commands; used with peripheral devices such as
printers and modems. 2) A means of aborting the task currently in
progress.
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