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(computing) A computer component using dedicated hardware to accelerate the processing and display of graphics.
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(computing) Physical hardware, as opposed to virtualised.
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(computing) The amount of RAM installed on a new computer, before any optional upgrades.
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The main unit of a computer or hi-fi system.
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(computing, informal, by extension) any firmware user interface that provides similar functionality as BIOS, such as UEFI
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(computing, historical) A type of non-volatile computer memory that uses a thin film of magnetic material to hold small magnetized areas, known as bubbles or domains, each storing one bit of data.
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(computing) A user interface in which the user interacts with the computer through lines of text instead of graphical images.
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A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media.
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A complete piece of software. A set of instructions for a computer. This term can refer to either the executable form that a computer can execute (executable code) or the human readable form (source code). (Several programs, each of which does a task, can be collected as a software package or suite).
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(computing) Any system based around computer technology, such as a software package.
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(obsolete) A device that computes
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(computing) The first 640 kilobytes of RAM in an IBM-compatible PC
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(computing) PCI (the computer bus), as opposed to the newer PCI Express.
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(computing, historical) A type of non-volatile random-access rewritable electronic memory using ferrite cores to magnetically store binary digits (bits).
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(computing) Any of various applications resident in the memory of a mobile phone or similar device.
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(computing, slang) The main computer case containing the central components of a personal computer.
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(computing) Of software, etc., designed to work on various operating systems.
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(computing) Initialism of comma-separated values: a simple plain text data format, usually with values delimited by commas
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(computing) An addressing system of hard drives where the hard drive is addressed by its cylinders, heads, and sectors.
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(computing) Alternative spelling of data path [(computing) The part of a central processing unit that stores data to be immediately operated on and performs logic and arithmetic operations on it based on signals from the control unit.]
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Alternative spelling of demultiplexer [(computing, electronics) A device or piece of software used to separate signals that were previously combined using a multiplexer.]
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Computer memory that requires a periodic refresh to maintain its contents. This memory is usually cheaper and faster than ROM.
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(computing) Any factor relating to the physical environment in which hardware is operated, such as the room temperature or the number of racks used to hold equipment.
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(computing) A very low-level kernel that avoids abstractions.
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(computing) On x86-compatible PCs, a way to increase available memory beyond the 640 kilobytes usable by DOS, through use of bank switching.
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(computing) The extent of memory above the first megabyte in the address space of later PCs
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(computing, of a piece of hardware) Able to transfer data in a short period of time.
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(rare) A hypothetical FAT filesystem using a 64-bit file allocation table, but without the additional data structures found in exFAT.
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(computing) The amount of hard drive space required for a program.
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(computing) A computer that implements the Harvard architecture.
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(computer graphics) A mode in which the application is directly responsible for rendering graphics to the display, contrasting with retained mode.
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(computing) A computer terminal capable of doing its own local processing, rather than merely sending input to and receiving output from some other linked system.
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(computing) The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.
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(computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.
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(computing) The on-board RAM set aside specifically for kernel-related tasks.
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(computing, dated, rare) A laptop computer.
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(computing) A type of computer architecture in which instructions either load/store values between memory and CPU registers, or perform calculations on values in CPU registers, but cannot directly perform calculations on values in memory.
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(computing) A mainframe, as opposed to a microcomputer.
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(computing, historical) Synonym of core memory
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(computing) The primary volatile memory of a computer, not including memory cache, persistent disk storage, or external storage.
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(computer hardware) A large, powerful computer able to manage very many simultaneous tasks and communicate with very many connected terminals; used by large, complex organizations (such as banks and supermarkets) where continuously sustained operation is vital.
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(computer hardware) Any form of persistent data storage technology with high capacity relative to that of the high-speed non-persistent memory of computers of its time.
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(computer hardware) A mainframe.
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(computing) A computer that has very fast (even instantaneous) access to memory
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(electronics) A resistor with memory able to perform logic operations and store information.
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(computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).
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(computing, electronics) A RAM, ROM, PROM, EPROM or EEPROM microchip that can be plugged into a personal computer to provide temporary or permanent memory.
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(science fiction, computing) A (semi-)permanent computer memory storage device that may be extracted, and may or may not be separate from the computer core.
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(computing) A fragment of physical address space which does not map to main memory.
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In metacomputation, a computing machine that controls the running of another computing machine.
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(computing, Microsoft Windows) A small core dump comprising 64 kilobytes of memory (on 32-bit systems) or 128 kilobytes (on 64-bit systems).
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A computer resembling a mainframe but significantly smaller in physical size.
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(software architecture) A type of computer user interface that separates the representation of information from the user's interaction.
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(computing) An influential early time-sharing operating system.
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(computing) A computer system that multitasks.
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(computing) A user interface for a computer that is effectively invisible, or becomes invisible to its users with successive learned interactions.
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(software) written for a specific operating system
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(computing) An area on the hard disk that Windows uses as if it were RAM.
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(computing) Any hardware (i.e. handheld, computer, laptop) containing vast amounts of information, which is in constant flux and is important to the owner but not so important as to be stored in wetware.
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(computing, dated) An expansion mechanism for ARM-based computer systems, generally a Eurocard-compatible printed circuit board that plugs into a backplane inside the machine.
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(computer science) Random-access time: the time required to move the hard disk arm to the desired cylinder (seek time) and for the desired sector to rotate under the disk head (rotational latency).
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(computing) The volatile memory of a computer directly accessible by the central processing unit; the main memory together with processor registers and the processor cache.
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A device which processes, which changes something (a computer processor, food processor, etc.).
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(electronics) Programmable read-only memory: A PROM chip can be programmed one or more times (depending on the type) and generally cannot be re-programmed without special equipment (if at all). Once programmed and installed in a device, it functions as a read-only chip (as if it had been hard-wired to function that way.)
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(computing) Unix command to print the working directory
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Alternative spelling of RAM disk [(computing) a virtual disk, implemented in software, that stores its contents in RAM.]
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Alternative spelling of read-only memory [(computing) A computer memory chip that stores values but does not allow updates, in which the values are nonvolatile in that they are retained even when the computer is unpowered.]
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(computing) A computer memory chip that stores values but does not allow updates, in which the values are nonvolatile in that they are retained even when the computer is unpowered.
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(computing) The default operational mode of x86-compatible CPUs, offering direct software access to all memory and peripherals but without the advanced features of protected mode.
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(computing) A "black box" component that receives an input signal to be read out and mapped by another process, as part of reservoir computing.
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(computing) Synonym of secondary storage
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(computing) The nonvolatile memory of a computer, not directly accessible by the central processing unit.
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(computing, chiefly MS/PC-DOS and Microsoft Windows) An 8.3 filename.
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(computing) The core logic of a computer program, without such peripheral aspects as user interface, etc.
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(computing, technology) A solid-state storage device that uses integrated circuit assemblies to store data persistently, typically using flash memory, and functioning as secondary storage in the hierarchy of computer storage.
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(computing) A specific iteration of a model of central processing unit, often distinguished by the addition or removal of features compared to earlier examples of the same processor, or the presence, or lack thereof, of specific bugs.
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(usually uncountable, computer hardware) Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than main memory.
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(computing) A hardware independent supervisory software program that operates as a transparent virtual layer across consolidated disk pools providing centrally-managed storage control and supplementary functionality to improve availability, speed and utilization.
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(computing) suspend to RAM.
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(computing) The level of accuracy of a computer's clock, relative to others on the network.
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(computing) An early form of high-capacity floppy disk
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(computing, dated) A minicomputer that has higher-than-normal performance, especially one using 32-bit rather than 16-bit words.
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(computing) Space on a hard disk used as auxiliary memory.
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(computing) A single chip with CPU, memory and communications capability, used in grids to form parallel processing computers.
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(computing) The area of memory between 640 kB and 1 MB in an IBM-compatible PC.
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(computing) Memory that appears to be RAM but is being simulated (by a process called paging) on a hard disk; allows a computer to operate as if it had more memory than it actually does, but with some loss of performance
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(computer hardware) Computer memory (such as RAM) that requires a constant electrical charge to maintain its contents.
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(computing) A computer that implements the von Neumann architecture.
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(informal) A failed or otherwise inoperative memory device.
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(computing) A windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.
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