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GLOSSARY ON USING PC COMPUTER
A
- Active - The state of the selected item on a computer's display.
- Active Window - The selected window, which comes to the foreground of the screen on a computer's display.
- Add-in card - a circuit that goes into a slot in a computer.
- Adobe Type Manager (ATM) - Software for Machintosh, Windows or OS/2 computers created by Adobe Systems to simplify the use of fonts.
- Algorithm - A sequence of rules followed by a computer to give the answer to a particular problem, such as hyphenating words.
- Alias - On the Mac, a dummy file used as a pointer to the actual file it represents.
- ANSI - American National Standards Institute. An organization that helps set voluntary standards and also represents the United States in some international standards bodies.
- AppleTalk - a software standard from Apple Computer Corporation that facilitates linking Macintosh computers and peripherals.
- Application - a type of program designed for accomplishing a specific type of task.
B
- Backup - to make spare copies of files in case something bad happens to the original file.
- Backspace - the key that permitr you to backspace and erase one character at a time in text.
- Byte - a group of 8 (sometimes 7) bits. Often used to represent a character. Bytes are also units of storage and transmission.
- Broadcast message - a message from one user sent to all users, as is a TV Station signal.
- Bulletin board system (BBS) - A fancy name for an Electronic Message System typically running on a PC. Users can call up, leave messages and read messages.
- Binary - a numbering system that allows only two values, zero and one.
- Bitmapped graphics or fonts - produced by selectively turning on rectangular dots in the invisible grid of the screen.
C
- CAD - Computer-Aided Design a software suitable for designing a building and issuing a bill for materials for its construction, planning its interior or designing a machine tool.
- Connector - a fitting, often called a port, on a computer or other piece of hardware, where you plug in a cable.
- CRT - Cathode ray tube; a technical term for display screen of the computer.
- Cut - to delete a selected item.
- Clip art - a set of graphic images that can be pasted into documents wherever appropriate.
- Clipboard - a special file that's part of the Macintosh operating system, OS/2 and Windows. The Clipboard holds things you select and them copy or cut (remove) from your work files.