User guide

6 User’s Guide
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Acronym for electrically erasable pro-
grammable read-only memory.
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Abbreviation for enhanced graphics
adapter.
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Acronym for Extended Industry-Standard
Architecture, a 32-bit expansion-bus de-
sign. The expansion-card connectors in an
EISA computer are also compatible with
8- or 16-bit ISA expansion cards.
To avoid a configuration conflict when in-
stalling an EISA expansion card, you must
use the EISA Configuration Utility. This
utility allows you to specify which expan-
sion slot contains the card and obtains
information about the card's required sys-
tem resources from a corresponding EISA
configuration file.
,(
Abbreviation for Electromagnetic
Compatibility.
,(
Abbreviation for electromagnetic
interference.
,((
Abbreviation for expanded memory man-
ager. A software utility that uses
extended memory to emulate expanded
memory on computers with an Intel386™
or higher microprocessor. See also con-
ventional memory, expanded memory,
extended memory, memory manager,
and XMM.
,(
Abbreviation for emergency manage-
ment port.
,(
Abbreviation for Expanded Memory Spec-
ification. See also expanded memory,
memory manager, and XMS.
,' (
Acronym for erasable programmable
read-only memory.
,
Abbreviation for electrostatic discharge.
See "Safety Instructions" for a complete
discussion of ESD.
,
Acronym for enhanced small-device
interface.
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A technique for accessing RAM above
1 MB. To enable expanded memory on
your computer, you must use an EMM.
You should configure your system to sup-
port expanded memory only if you run
application programs that can use (or re-
quire) expanded memory. See also
conventional memory, EMM, extended
memory, and memory manager.
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Your computer contains an expansion bus
that allows the microprocessor to com-
municate with controllers for peripheral
devices, such as a network card or an in-
ternal modem.
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A connector on the computer's system
board for plugging in an expansion card.
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RAM above 1 MB. Most software that can
use it, such as Windows, requires that ex-
tended memory be under the control of
an XMM. See also conventional memory,
expanded memory, memory manager,
and XMM.
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A RAM cache using SRAM chips. Be-
cause SRAM chips operate at several
times the speed of DRAM chips, the
microprocessor can retrieve data and in-
structions faster from external cache
memory than from RAM.
&
Abbreviation for Fahrenheit.
&"
Acronym for file allocation table. The file
system structure used by MS-DOS to or-
ganize and keep track of file storage. The
Microsoft Windows NT operating system