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LASER |
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Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, is a device that produces a narrow beam of light. |
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Latency |
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How long it takes for a required sector of a drive to rotate until it is under the read/write heads. Measure in milliseconds. |
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Land |
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Areas on the surface of an optical storage disk that are smooth and reflect a laser beam directly. |
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Link |
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Text or graphics on a web page that when clicked on lead you to other pages on the Internet. |
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LAN |
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Local Area Network |
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LANG |
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Language |
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LINUX |
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Operating system named after Linus Torvalds |
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LNK |
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Link |
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LPT |
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Line Printer |
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LPT1 |
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First Parallel Printer Port |
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LPT2 |
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Second Parallel Printer Port |
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LPT3 |
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Third Parallel Printer Port |
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LCD |
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Liquid crystal display. |
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LS-120 |
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A diskette drive, which can read and write from and to both traditional 3.5" diskettes and special 120 MB disks. |
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Megahertz (MHz) |
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A measurement in millions, of the number of times something vibrates, mainly the vibration of the crystal in the microprocessor. This determines the processor speed i.e. for a 500 MHz processor the crystal vibrates at 500 million vibrations per second. |
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Microchip |
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A sheet of silicon dioxide on which microscopic electrical circuits have been etched. |
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MIDI |
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Musical instrument digital interface. |
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MPEG |
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MPEG is an acronym derived from the motion pictures expert group, MPEG is a specific method of decompressing video and sound for real time playback. |
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MAC |
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Macintosh (Apple Macintosh Computer) |
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MB |
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Megabyte (1,024 kilobytes) usually a measurement of RAM i.e. 128 MB |
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MBASIC |
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Microsoft BASIC |
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MBps |
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Megabytes Per Second |
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Mbps |
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Megabits Per Second |
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MEG |
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Megabyte |
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MHz |
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Megahertz, expression of CPU speed. |
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MICRO |
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One-millionth |
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MP3 |
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MPEG Audio Layer 3 |
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MS-DOS |
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Microsoft - Disk Operating System |
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MSN |
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Microsoft Network |
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MMX |
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MultiMedia eXtension. |
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MODEM |
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Derives from the words Modulator and DEModulator, as these |
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are what a modem does. |
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