Toshiba T2150CD Series Manual page 172

Enhanced Graphics Adapter.
EGA:
Enhanced Graphics Adapter and its associated circuitry for direct drive TTL
displays that supports 16-color/monochrome 640x350 and 16-color 640x200 and
320x200 graphics, and 16-color 640x350 and 320x350 text modes.
Electronic Industries Association.
EIA:
technical standards related to the electronics industry.
A technique where a piece of hardware acts like another device.
emulation:
delete.
erase: See
1) A code ( ASCII code 27), signaling the computer that what follows
escape:
are commands; used with peripheral devices such as printers and modems.
means of aborting the task currently in progress.
escape guard time:
which distinguishes between escapes that are part of the transmitted data, and
escapes that are intended as a command to the modem.
To interpret and execute instruction.
execute:
Memory, in addition to the 640 kilobytes of conventional
expanded memory:
memory managed by MS-DOS, that is mapped to a 64-kilobyte window between 640
kilobytes and 1 megabyte on the memory map.
accordance with the Expanded Memory Specification standard jointly developed by
Lotus, Intel, and Microsoft called LIM-EMS.
Memory, in addition to the 640 kilobytes of conventional
extended memory:
memory managed by MS-DOS, that is mapped beyond 1 megabyte on the memory map.
F
file: A collection of related information; a file can contain data, programs,
or both.
A set of instructions built into the hardware which control and
firmware:
direct a microprocessorÕs activities.
hard disk.
fixed disk: See
A small, flexible disk that stores magnetically encoded data used
floppy disk:
on a microcomputer.
floppy disk drive (FDD):
floppy disks.
See also
The process of readying a blank disk for its first use.
format:
establishes the structure of the disk that the operating system expects before
it writes files or programs onto the disk.
duplex.
full-duplex: See
The keys labeled
function keys:
A video display protocol defined by the IBM
A time before and after an escape code is sent to the modem
Also called a diskette.
An electro-mechanical device that reads and writes to
floppy disk and diskette.
through
F1
A trade association that publishes
This memory is managed in
that tell the computer to
F12
2) A
Formatting