The Architecture of Computer Hardware, Systems Software, & Networking: An Information Technology Approach, 5th Edition

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

active window, 525–526

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

addressing modes, 204, 227

direct addressing, 227

register-deferred addressing, 227

adduser, 497

Algol, 29

algorithm, 606–607, 620–622

aliases, 574

alphanumeric character data, 104–111

alphanumeric codes, 105

ASCII, 105–106

EBCDIC, 105

Unicode, 105

base planes, 106

collating sequence, 109

control characters, 109

control codes, 109

keyboard input, 269–271

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

analytical engine, 24–25

analog data, 102

analog signal, 447, 448–456

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