CompTIA A_ Certification All-In-One Exam Guide, Seventh Edition - Michael Meyers [482]
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GLOSSARY
10BaseT Ethernet LAN designed to run on UTP cabling. 10BaseT runs at 10 megabits per second. The maximum length for the cabling between the NIC and the hub (or switch, repeater, etc.) is 100 meters. It uses baseband signaling. No industry standard spelling exists, so sometimes written 10BASE-T or 10Base-T.
100BaseT Generic term for an Ethernet cabling system designed to run at 100 megabits per second on UTP cabling. It uses baseband signaling. No industry standard spelling exists, so sometimes written 100BASE-T or 100Base-T.
1000BaseT Gigabit Ethernet on UTP.
2.1 Speaker setup consisting of two stereo speakers combined with a subwoofer.
3.5-inch floppy drive All modern floppy disk drives are of this size; the format was introduced in 1986 and is one of the longest surviving pieces of computer hardware.
34-pin ribbon cable Type of cable used by floppy disk drives.
3-D graphics Video technology that attempts to create images with the same depth and texture as objects seen in the real world.
40-pin ribbon cable PATA cable used to attach EIDE devices (such as hard drives) or ATAPI devices (such as optical drives) to a system (See PATA).
5.1 speaker system Four satellite speakers plus a center speaker and a subwoofer.
8.3 naming system File-naming convention that specified a maximum of eight characters for a filename, followed