Dell WorkStation 210 Personal Computer User Manual


 
6 Dell Precision 210 Desktop Systems User’s Guide
expansion slot contains the card and ob-
tains information about the card’s
required system resources from a corre-
sponding EISA configuration file.
Abbreviation for Electromagnetic
Compatibility.
Abbreviation for electromagnetic
interference.
Abbreviation for expanded memory man-
ager. A utility that uses extended memory
to emulate expanded memory on comput-
ers with an Intel386
or higher
microprocessor.
Abbreviation for Expanded Memory
Specification.
Acronym for erasable programmable
read-only memory.
Abbreviation for electrostatic discharge.
A technique for accessing RAM above
1 MB. To enable expanded memory on
your computer, you must use an EMM.
You should configure your system to sup-
port expanded memory only if you run
application programs that can use (or re-
quire) expanded memory.
Your computer contains an expansion bus
that allows the microprocessor to
communicate with controllers for periph-
eral devices, such as a network card or an
internal modem.
A connector on the computer’s system
board or riser board for plugging in an ex-
pansion card.
RAM above 1 MB. Most software that can
use it, such as the Windows operating
system, requires that extended memory
be under the control of an XMM.
A RAM cache using SRAM chips. Be-
cause SRAM chips operate at several
times the speed of DRAM chips, the
microprocessor can retrieve data and in-
structions faster from external cache
memory than from RAM.
Abbreviation for Fahrenheit.
Acronym for file allocation table. The file
system structure used by MS-DOS to or-
ganize and keep track of file storage. The
Windows NT and OS/2
®
operating sys-
tems can optionally use a FAT file system
structure.
Abbreviation for Federal Communications
Commission.
A type of EEPROM chip that can be
reprogrammed from a utility on diskette
while still installed in a computer; most
EEPROM chips can only be rewritten with
special programming equipment.
To prepare a hard-disk drive or diskette for
storing files. An unconditional format de-
letes all data stored on the disk.
Abbreviation for feet.
Abbreviation for file transfer protocol.
Abbreviation for gram(s).
Abbreviation for gravities.