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What is CISC?

Asked by Poo in Computers & Technology at 7:32 AM on November 20, 2007

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stands for complex instruction set computer. Most personal computers, use a CISC architecture, in which the CPU supports as many as two hundred instructions. An alternative architecture, used by many workstations and also some personal computers, is RISC (reduced instruction set computer), which supports fewer instructions.

Answered at 1:39 PM on November 21, 2007

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What is a keystone jack?

Asked by madhuhot in Computers & Technology at 12:06 PM on November 21, 2007

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A keystone jack is a female connector used in data communications, particularly local area networks (LANs). The jack is usually mounted in a wall plate or patch panel. A keystone plug is the matching male connector, usually attached to the end of a cable or cord.

Answered at 1:34 PM on November 21, 2007

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What is Ashton-Tate?

Asked by madhuhot in Computers & Technology at 12:09 PM on November 21, 2007

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Ashton-Tate (Ashton-Tate Corporation) was a US based software company best known for developing the popular dBASE database application.

Answered at 1:34 PM on November 21, 2007

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What is cypherpunk?

Asked by madhuhot in Computers & Technology at 12:34 PM on November 21, 2007

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The cypherpunks comprise an informal group of people interested in privacy and cryptography who originally communicated through the cypherpunks mailing list. The aim of the group was to achieve privacy and security through proactive use of cryptography. Events such as the GURPS Cyberpunk raid lent weight to the idea that private individuals needed to take steps themselves to protect their privacy.

Answered at 1:29 PM on November 21, 2007

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What is coercivity?

Asked by madhuhot in Computers & Technology at 12:15 PM on November 21, 2007

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The reverse field that must be applied to a magnetised sample to reduce its overall magnetisation to zero.On magnetic media, the amount of electrical energy required to change the polarization of a bit.

Answered at 1:31 PM on November 21, 2007

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What is hoteling?

Asked by madhuhot in Computers & Technology at 12:11 PM on November 21, 2007

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is the practice of providing office space to employees on an as-needed rather than on the traditional, constantly reserved basis. This reduces the amount of physical space that an enterprise needs, lowering overhead cost while (ideally) ensuring that every worker can access office resources when necessary.

Answered at 1:33 PM on November 21, 2007

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What is CD-RW?

Asked by Poo in Computers & Technology at 7:33 AM on November 20, 2007

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Short for CD-ReWritable disk, a type of CD disk that enables you to write onto it in multiple sessions. One of the problems with CD-R disks is that you can only write to them once. With CD-RW drives and disks, you can treat the optical disk just like a floppy or hard disk, writing data onto it multiple times.

Answered at 9:10 PM on November 20, 2007

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What is CDMA?

Asked by Poo in Computers & Technology at 7:33 AM on November 20, 2007

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Short for Code-Division Multiple Access, a digital cellular technology that uses spread-spectrum techniques. Unlike competing systems, such as GSM, that use TDMA, CDMA does not assign a specific frequency to each user. Instead, every channel uses the full available spectrum. Individual conversations are encoded with a pseudo-random digital sequence.

Answered at 9:09 PM on November 20, 2007

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What is Clip Art?

Asked by Poo in Computers & Technology at 7:33 AM on November 20, 2007

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Illustrations, line drawings, pictures and other graphics that can be inserted in artwork or in a page layout, usually royalty-free. Before digital clip art, artwork from paper books was actually cut, or clipped, from the page and pasted onto the layout, thus the name clip art.

Answered at 9:13 PM on November 20, 2007

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What is glyph?

Asked by madhuhot in Computers & Technology at 12:35 PM on November 21, 2007

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The term for the abstract entity represented by a glyph is character: a typographical character may be a grapheme (an element of a writing system), but also a numeral, a punctuation mark, or a pictorial or decorative symbol (such as dingbats, or Unicode's "Miscellaneous Symbols").

Answered at 1:28 PM on November 21, 2007

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