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L i f e B o o k S S e r i e s - S e c t i o n 7
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.
MAC Address
Media Access Control Address
A unique physical address of a network card. For
Ethernet, the first three bytes are used as the
vendor code, controlled and assigned by IEEE.
The remaining three bytes are controlled by each
vendor (preventing overlap), therefore, every
Ethernet card is given a unique physical address
in the world, being assigned with a different
address from other cards. For Ethernet, frames
are sent and received based on this address.
MB
Megabyte.
Megahertz
1,000,000 cycles per second.
Memory
A repository for data and applications which is
readily accessible to your LifeBook notebook's
CPU.
MHz
Megahertz.
MIDI
Musical Instrument Digital Interface. A standard
communication protocol for exchange of
information between computers and sound
producers such as synthesizers.
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.
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MPU-401
A standard for MIDI interfaces and connectors.
MTU
Maximum Transmission Unit
The maximum data size that can be transferred
at a time through the Internet or other networks.
You can set a smaller MTU size to obtain
successful communication, if you have difficulty
transferring data due to the fact that the maximum
size is too large.
NTSC
National TV Standards Commission. The
standard for TV broadcast and reception for the
USA.
Operating System
A group of control programs that convert
application commands, including driver
programs, into the exact form required by a
specific brand and model of microprocessor in
order to produce the desired results from that
particular equipment.
Optical Drive
An optical drive is any device that reads media
optically, such as a DVD/CD-RW drive, CD-ROM
drive, or DVD drive.
Partition
A block of space on a hard drive which is set
aside and made to appear to the operating
system as if it were a separate disk, and
addressed by the operating system accordingly.
PCI
Peripheral Component Interconnect
Self-configuring PC local bus. Designed by Intel,
PCI has gained wide acceptance as a standard
bus design.
PCMCIA
PCMCIA is a trademark of the Personal
Computer
Association. The Personal Computer Memory
Card International Association is an organization
that sets standards for add-in cards for personal
computers.
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