The Winn L. Rosch Hardware Bible, 6th Edition
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B connector parallel ports 2nd B plugs Babbage, Charles back buffer back porches display systems 2nd back ups CDs back-side bus backlight switches backlighting digital camera sensing backlights backplane designs backplanes backup power systems backup rollers Baffles baffles loudspeakers 2nd 3rd Bain, Alexander ball size trackballs 2nd bandwidth communication channels 2nd 3rd emissions limitations 2nd standards-based limitations 2nd digital audio 2nd displays 2nd 3rd 4th bank-switched memory 2nd Bardeen, John barrel distortion 2nd base addresses RS-232C ports base memory. [See real mode memory] baseboards Basic Input/Output System. [See BIOS] Basic Rate Interface. [See BRI] bass reflex speakers batch languages 2nd batteries 2nd capacity 2nd charging 2nd 3rd 4th chemical systems carbon-zinc cells 2nd 3rd 4th lead-acid cells 2nd 3rd 4th Lithium 2nd 3rd lithium solid polymer cell 2nd lithium-iron disulfide cell 2nd ni-cads 2nd 3rd 4th nickel-metal hydrides 2nd 3rd zinc-air cell 2nd digital cameras 2nd 3rd electrical characteristics 2nd capacity 2nd cell types 2nd currents 2nd energy 2nd shelf life 2nd storage density 2nd 3rd voltages 2nd maintenance-free primary safety 2nd secondary Smart Battery system 2nd 3rd standards 2nd 3rd Battery Optimized Mode (SpeedStep) Battery Saver mode (PowerNow!) bays cases 2nd device heights 2nd form factors 2nd internal bays racks 2nd BEDO (Burst EDO DRAM) 2nd beep codes POST (Power-On Self Test) 2nd Bell 103 modem standard Bell 212A modem standard bels Berry, Clifford BFT (binary file transfers) Bi-directional Parallel Port Bidirectional microphones bidirectional parallel ports bilinear filtering bilingual connectors bin feed mechanisms binary file transfers (BFT) Group 3 standards binaural recording 2nd BIOS 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th (Basic Input/Output System) ACPI APM extensions 2nd 3rd 4th firmware 2nd 3rd functions 2nd initialization 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th interface 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd IPL (Initial Program Load) 2nd 3rd 4th 5th storage 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th 30th 31st 32nd 33rd 34th 35th 36th 37th 38th 39th 40th 41st 42nd 43rd 44th 45th 46th 47th 48th 49th 50th 51st 52nd 53rd 54th 55th 56th 57th 58th 59th 60th 61st 62nd 63rd 64th interrupt vector table 2nd 3rd 4th teletypes 2nd upgrades 2nd 3rd BIOS data area (real mode memory) BIOS shadowing bit-block transfers 2nd bit-coding serial channels 2nd bit-depth 2nd bit- stuffing 2nd BitBlt BitFAT bitmapped graphics 2nd 3rd 4th bitmaps bits memory cells black composite black blackouts protection from 2nd offline backup systems 2nd 3rd online backup systems 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th blade servers 2nd blanking display systems 2nd blind transfers AT Attachment block graphics 2nd 3rd blocks secondary storage sequential data organization inter-record gaps Blu-ray 2nd 3rd blue CD-R discs blue screening Bluetooth 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th components 2nd hardware 2nd channels clocks 2nd frequencies 2nd 3rd modulation 2nd power 2nd topology 2nd history 2nd software 2nd 3rd standards BNC connectors 2nd 3rd Bollean algebra Boole, George Boolean logic digital electronics 2nd boot block Flash memory boot block protection boot devices CMOS advanced setup 2nd boot sector code booting cold boots 2nd 3rd 4th 5th hot boots IPL (Initial Program Load) 2nd 3rd 4th 5th warm boots 2nd 3rd 4th BOSS (Bus Owner/Supervisor/Selector) bottles. [See CRTs ( cathode ray tube technology)] branch prediction logic 2nd branches FireWire Brattain, Walter BRI (Basic Rate Interface) bridges expansion buses 2nd latency broadcast model satellite systems browsers. [See Web browsers] BubbleJet 2nd buffer underrun 2nd buffer underrun errors buffered SDRAM. [See registered SDRAM] buffers back double-buffering frame 2nd front bulk erase Flash memory burning the PROM Burst EDO DRAM. [See BEDO] burst mode expansion mode PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) 2nd bus clock CMOS advanced setup bus controller DMA (Direct Memory Access) 2nd bus controllers USB bus master DMA Bus Owner/Supervisor/Selector (BOSS) bus topology. [See linear topologies] bus-oriented computers 2nd 3rd buses 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th address AGP 2nd connectors dimensions 2nd 3rd back-side bus data front-side 2nd 3rd front-side bus InfiniBand Architecture 2nd 3rd communications 2nd 3rd 4th history 2nd 3rd standards 2nd structure 2nd 3rd PCI 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th (Peripheral Component Interconnect) arbitrated bus-mastering 2nd architecture 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th burst mode 2nd connectors 2nd 3rd data integrity signals 2nd dimensions 2nd 3rd hot-plugging 2nd low-voltage evolution multiplexing 2nd PCI Express 2nd 3rd 4th 5th PCI-X 2nd 3rd 4th 5th serialized interrupts 2nd 3rd 4th 5th setup 2nd slot limits 2nd speed 2nd 3rd standards 2nd PCMCIA cards 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th connectors riser boards 2nd 3rd 4th 5th ACR (Advanced Communications Riser) 2nd 3rd ACR SIG (Advanced Communications Riser Special Interest Group) 2nd 3rd AMR (audio modem riser) 2nd CNR (Communications and Networking Riser) 2nd 3rd signals HyperTransport 2nd standards 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th USB 2nd 3rd bus controllers cable 2nd 3rd connectors 2nd 3rd function hosts hubs Plug-and-Play protocol 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th speed standards buses, expansion asynchronous burst mode communications channels 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th address lines 2nd 3rd 4th bridges 2nd data lines 2nd 3rd expansion boards flow control 2nd masters 2nd 3rd non-bussed signals 2nd parallel peripherals power distribution 2nd system control 2nd timing 2nd expansion boards ACPI 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th Plug-and-Play 2nd fairness memory I/O multiplexing peer priorities SCSI 2nd SCSI parallel interface 2nd 3rd synchronous busy lines parallel ports 2nd busy signal buttons mouse 2nd 3rd byte mode parallel ports 2nd bytes attribute bytes
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