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Megabyte
1,048,576 bytes
(2 raised to the twentieth power).
Megahertz
1,000,000 cycles per second.
Memory
A repository for data and applications which is
readily accessible to your computer CPU.
MHz
Megahertz.
MIDI
Musical Instrument Digital Interface.A stan-
dard communication protocol for exchange of
information between computers and sound
producers such as synthesizers.
Modem
A contraction for MOdulator-DEModulator.
The equipment which connects a computer or
other data terminal to a communication line.
MPEG-1
The first standard developed by the MPEG
which defined coding for a combined audio-
visual signal at a rate of 1.5Mbit/sec. It is
intended to process video with a source resolu-
tion of 352 x 240 pixels at 30 frames/sec, one
fourth the resolution of broadcast television.
MPEG-2
The second standard developed by the MPEG
which defined coding for a combined audio-
visual signal at a rate of 6.0Mbit/sec. It is
intended to process video with a source resolu-
tion of 720 x 480 pixels at 30 frames/sec,the
resolution of broadcast television.
MPU-401
A standard for MIDI interfaces and connectors.
NTSC
Na ti onal TV Standards Com m i s s i on . The stan-
d a rd for TV broadcast and recepti o n for the USA.
MMX Technology
MMX technology is an Intel processor enhance-
ment that improves multimedia and communi-
cation applications. The Pentium processor with
MMX technology boasts three primary architec-
tural design enhancements: 57 powerful new
instructions specifically designed to manipulate
and process video, audio and graphical data effi-
ciently; Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
enabling one instruction to perform the same
function on multiple pieces of data; and more
L1 cache for a total of 32KB.
Monaural
A system using one channel to process sound
from all sources.
MPEG Compression
Moving Pictures Experts Group – An organ-
ization under the International Standards
Organization which is tasked with generating
standards for digital video and audio
data compression.