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Cursor control keys
Keys that move the Cursor around the screen, and are frequently used to control
the direction of action in arcade games, indicated by arrows printed on the top.
Daisy-wheel printer
A printer that can produce high quality or 'typewriter quality' documents. Printed
characters are created by the impact ofletters against the ink or film ribbon.
Database
An array of any type of data in a variety of computer addressable formats.
Data capture
The term which describes the collection of data from any outside sources that are
linked in some way to a central computer.
Debugging
The process of fixing the bugs in a program by a combination of 'suck it and see'
and more scientific methods.
Decimal notation
Also known as the Denary system, for numbers with base 10, using the digits
°
to
9, representing numbers of units , tens, hundreds, thousands and so on.
Default
The value assumed in the absence of any user output. For example, when
CP/M
i.s
started Drive A : is assumed to be the default drive.
Delimiter
(See Separator)
Diagnostic
A message automatically produced by a computer to indicate and identify an error
in a program.
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