NEC VERSA 6060 User Manual page 135

board
Printed circuit board. Board onto which computer components are soldered
and thin wires are printed to connect the components.
boot
To start up a computer. See cold boot and warm boot.
bus
An electronic circuit within a computer used for transmitting data or electri-
cal power from one device to another.
byte
Group of eight contiguous bits.
C
CardBus
A new 32-bit high-performance bus defined by the new PC Card Standard
and released by the PCMCIA standards body and trade association. Card
Bus offers wider and faster 32-bit bus and bus mastering operation for im-
proved adapter performance and can operate at speeds up to 32 MHz.
CD audio
Also called digital audio, uses the same format as conventional music CDs.
CD audio sounds have been digitized at a high sampling rate.
CD-ROM reader
A computer-controlled device that reads high-capacity optical discs and sends
the output to the computer.
clock
Electronic timer used to synchronize computer operations.
CMOS
Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. A chip that contains nonvola-
tile memory in the Versa. CMOS is backed up by an internal lithium battery
that preserves clock/calendar data and system configuration parameters
stored in CMOS.
2 Glossary