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CMOS

Complementary

Metal-Oxide

Semiconductor.

A

low-power

silicon

chip

used

for

RAM

and

switching

applications

that

is

backed

up

by

a

battery.

Command

prompt

The

symbol

or

message

that

displays

on

the

screen

to

tell

you

that

the

operating

system

is

loaded

and

ready

to

receive

instructions.

The

default

MS-DOS

command

prompt

displays

the

current

drive

and

directory.

If

you

are

logged

onto

drive

C,

the

command

prompt

may

look

like

this:

c

:

\>.

Configuration

The

setup

of your

computer’s

internal

and

external

components.

A

typical

configuration

consists

of

a

computer

with

a

certain

amount

of

memory,

one

diskette

drive,

and

one

hard

disk

drive

connected

to

a

monitor,

printer,

and

keyboard.

Conventional

memory

The

memory

in

the

computer

below

1MB

that

is

available

to

MS-DOS

and

application

programs-usually

640KB.

Also

called

base

memory

or

main

memory.

Coprocessor

See

Math

coprocessor.

Copy-protected

program

A

program

containing

a

software

“lock”

that

prevents

it

from

being

copied.

See

also

Key

disk.

4

Glossary