Digital Equipment 300 Series AXP Reference Manual page 276

cable
A sheathed group of electrical conductors.
cable junction block
A small block attached to the monitor cable from which the BNC
connectors emerge.
cache
See cache memory.
cache memory
A small, high-speed area of memory placed between slower main
memory and the processor. Cache memory increases memory
transfer rates and processor speed. It contains copies of data
recently used by the processor and fetches several bytes of data
from memory in anticipation that the processor will access the
next sequential series of bytes.
CD
See compact disc.
CD-ROM
See compact disc read-only memory.
central processing unit (CPU)
The unit of the computer that is responsible for interpreting and
executing instructions.
CISC
Complex instruction set computer. A computer that uses
an instruction set consisting of a large number of complex
instructions that are managed by microcode. Contrast with
RISC.
client
A piece of hardware or software that obtains a specific set of
services from a server.
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