January 2014
Beginner
672 pages
25h 52m
English
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The Architecture of Computer Hardware, Systems Software, & Networking: An Information Technology Approach, 5th Edition
by Irv Englander
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INDEX
abacus, 24
abnormal events, 280
indicator, interrupt as, 280
absolute pathname, 572
abstractions, 44
access control lists (ACLs), 517, 579
access point, 380
access restrictions, physical and logical, 432
accumulator, 198
active matrix LCD display, 317
acyclic-graph directories, 570, 573–576
aliases, 574
cycle, 574
dangling links, 574
hard-coded link, 574
ad hoc mode, 411
add/drop multiplexers, 436
address field, 224
explicit source address, 225
implicit source address, 225
address resolution protocol (ARP), 410, 415
direct addressing, 227
register-deferred addressing, 227
adduser, 497
Algol, 29
aliases, 574
alphanumeric character data, 104–111
alphanumeric codes, 105
EBCDIC, 105
Unicode, 105
base planes, 106
collating sequence, 109
control characters, 109
control codes, 109
numeric characters, 104
planes, 106
printing characters, 109
supplementary planes, 106
alphanumeric input
alternative sources of, 322–324
bar code, 322
magnetic stripe readers, 323
optical character recognition (OCR), 324
phonemes, 323
QR codes, 322
Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID), 323
smart cards, 323
voice input, 323
ALU, See arithmetic/logic unit (ALU)
American National Standards Institute (ANSI), 105
amplifiers, 455
amplitude, 448
amplitude-modulater (AM), 453
amplitude shift keying (ASK), 453
analog data, 102
Andreessen, Mark, ...
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