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Glossary
ASCII (as’kee)— astandardizedandcommonlyacceptednumericalcode
thatrepresentsletters,numbers,andsymbols,aswell ascommand
sets. ASCII standsfor AmericanStandardCodefor Information
Interchange.
Baud— a
measu~ of the speed at which information is transmitted. The
baud rate, which is set for serial transmissions, is approximately the
number of characters transmitted per second multiplied by
10.
Byte — a series of 8 bitsthatrepresentsonecharacter.
Centronics interface — a standardwiringconfigurationfor paralleldata
transmission.Centronicsisoftenusedasasynonymfortheparallel
standarddevelopedby CentronicsInc.
Character Set— the completeset of charactersavailablein a font.
Data Bits— the numberofbitsin a transmittedbytethatactuallycontains
data.
EEPROM — Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory. It
has an internalswitch to permit auser to erase the contents and write
new contents into it by means of electrical signals.
EP-L
Cartridge —A disposabletypeof processcartridgewhichcontains
thephotosensitivedrumandtoner.
Emulation — behavinglike somethingelse.The Star LaserPrinter4 can
emulate,or behaveliketwo otherprinters,theEpsonEX-850and
theHP LaserJetIIP laserprinter.
ExpansionRAMboard— Anavailableoptionthatiseasilyattachedtothe
LaserPrinter4 to expanditsRAMto a maximumof 5 MB.Three
kinds of memory expansionboard are available:a IMB RAM
board,a 2MBRAMboardanda 4MBRAMboard.
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