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- background task
- a task of low priority.
Will be given fewer time slices.
- backup
- a copy of a file or set of
files
- band printer
- Uses characters on a chain
that is moved into place before striking the
characters onto the paper.
- BASIC
- Beginner's All Symbolic
Instruction Code Written in 1964 for college
students to use to learn programming concepts.
- bay
- place in a computer case to
put drives and other devices
- bidirectional
- a printer which prints left
to right and then right to left
- BIOS
- Basic Input/Output System.
A limited set of instructions to the computer which
gets it started.
- bit
- short for "binary
digit". One on/off position in a
digital number
- block
- a logical division of data
on magnetic tape.
- booting
- starting the computer
- borders
- lines around a page or
table
- bridge
- connects networks of the
same type
- brownout
- period of lower voltage
- buffer
- location for temporary data
storage while processing is going on
- bus
- any path that data travels
inside the computer
- bus width
- amount of data that the bus
can carry at one time. Measured in bits.
- bus configuration
- network configuration where
all devices are connected to the same communications
line
- button
- a graphic which looks like
you could press it. Clicking on a button executes a
command.
- byte
- 8 bits
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