online computing dictionary

A

• A20 handler
• access time
• Address Strobe
• Advanced Intelligent Tape
• Advanced SCSI Peripheral Interface
• Advanced Technology Attachment
• Advanced Technology Attachment Interface with Extensions
• Andrew File System
• ATA-4
• AT Attachment Packet Interface
• Attributed File System
• auxiliary storage
• average seek time

B

• Bernoulli Box
• blocked records
• Burst Extended Data Out DRAM
• Burst Static Random Access Memory

C

• cache coherency
• cache conflict
• cache hit
• cache line
• cache miss
• checksum
• Commodore 1010
• Commodore 1541
• Commodore 1570
• Commodore 1571
• Commodore 1581
• Common Command Set
• Compact Disc
• Compact Disc Read-Only Memory
• Compact Disc Recordable
• Compact Disc Rewritable
• Computer Output to Laser Disk
• constant angular velocity
• constant linear velocity
• conventional memory
• cylinder

D

• data set
• data set organization
• data striping
• DEADBEEF
• DECtape
• Digital Audio Tape
• Digital Linear Tape
• Digital Versatile Disc
• Digital Versatile Disk Random Access Memory
• disc
• disk
• disk controller
• disk drive
• disk duplexing
• disk mirroring
• Ditto Drive
• Double Data Rate Random Access Memory
• DRAM refresh
• du
• Dual In-line Memory Module
• Dynamic Drive Overlay
• dynamic random access memory

E

• ECM
• Electrically Alterable Programmable Read-Only Memory
• Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
• EMM
• EMM386
• Enhanced Small Disk Interface
• Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
• error correcting memory
• Exabyte
• expanded memory

• expanded memory manager
• expanded memory page frame
• Expanded Memory Specification
• Extended Architecture
• Extended Data Out Dynamic Random Access Memory
• extended memory
• extended memory manager
• Extended Memory Specification
• external memory

F

• Fast Page Mode Dynamic Random Access Memory
• ferrite core memory
• Ferroelectric Random Access Memory
• fibre channel
• FileNet
• Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
• fixed disk
• Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
• flat file
• flippy
• floppy disk
• floptical
• footprint

G

• Grim File Reaper
• Group Code Recording

H

• hard disk
• hard disk drive
• hard sector
• Head Disk Assembly
• high memory area
• HIMEM
• Hot Fix

I

• Iomega Corporation
• ISO 9660

J

• Jaz Drive
• Joliet
• jukebox
• Just a Bunch Of Disks

K

L

• laundromat
• LINCtape
• Logical Block Addressing
• Logical Unit Number
• longitudinal parity
• Longitudinal Redundancy Check

M

• macrotape
• magnetic disk
• magnetic stripe
• magnetic tape
• magnetic tape drive
• magneto-optical disk
• magnetostrictive delay line
• main memory
• Mask Read-Only Memory
• maximum Maytag mode
• maximum seek time
• memory
• memory location
• memory management
• mercury delay line
• microtape
• Mini Disc
• minifloppy
• minimum seek time
• MMCD
• Modified Frequency Modulation
• MultiMedia Compact Disc

N

• Network Attached Storage
• New Storage System
• Nibble Mode DRAM
• Non Return to Zero Inverted
• Non-Volatile Random Access Memory

• non-volatile storage

O

• One Time Programmable Read-Only Memory

P

• packet writing
• page in
• Page Mode Dynamic Random Access Memory
• page out
• parity
• parity bit
• parity error
• Partial Response Maximum Likelihood
• Phase Encoded
• photo CD
• Pipeline Burst Cache
• precharge
• presence detect
• Programmable Read-Only Memory
• punched card

Q

• QEMM386
• Quarter Inch Cartridge

R

• Rambus DRAM
• RAM disk
• random access memory
• Read-Only Memory
• removable hard disk
• reserved memory
• RFC 1094
• RLDRAM
• round tape
• Row Address Strobe
• Run Length Limited
• rusty memory

S

• SCANDISK
• secondary storage
• seek time
• Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
• Single Data Rate Random Access Memory
• Single In-line Memory Module
• Small Outline DIMM
• Smartdrive
• solid-state storage device
• square tape
• ST-506
• stack loader
• state
• static random access memory
• stiffy
• storage
• Storage Management Services
• Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
• Synchronous Graphics Random Access Memory

T

• track
• Translation Look-aside Buffer
• twinning

U

• Universal Disk Format
• upper memory block

V

• Vertical Redundancy Check
• Video Compact Disc
• video memory
• Volume Table Of Contents

W

• washing machine
• Window Random Access Memory
• word
• working memory
• Write-Once Read-Many
• write protect

X

• XMS

Y

Z

• Zip Drive