| .. | Forward Slash |
| .CPI | Called a font file - charator set information. |
| Access Time | When or after the address and control signals are stable then the access time is the time required for a memory device to produce a valid input. |
| Accumulator | The Accumulator is a register in the ALU thats holds one of the operands
in arithmatic or logic operations and as well stores the result.
Also shifting/rotating/serving as the destination or source for input or output operations. |
| Address | The address is a location in computer memory. It can be numeric or symbolic. |
| Address Register | This is the register where the address is stored or can be found. |
| Advanced Power Management | APM - If your computer hardwar (monitor etc.) conforms to the APM specifcation then you can save up to 25% on a laptop battery (This is assumed will change with time). |
| Algorithm | An algorithm is a term that is used to describe the list of steps or procedures by which a given result is obtained. |
| Alphanumeric | These are symbols that consist of letters, number and other special charators. |
| ALU | Arithmitic and Logic Unit. The ALU is inside the microprocessor and it preforms mathmatical and logic operations at very fast speeds. |
| Analog | An analog is a system or a device that has a variable operation, like
a variable potentiometer used for a volume control on an old radio or stereo.
Digital moves in steps like in the modern stereo which can have a button to step up the volume. |
| Anti Virus | An anti virus program (software) scans your PC System and a: to find and hopefully destroy any virus found. |
| Anti-Aliasing | Smoothes the way graphic images look, in other words the images appearance. |
| Append | Enables some programs to open data files in certain directories (folders)
as id these files were in the current directory.
Example of Append in MS-DOS: append b:tracy; a:\rachel |
| Application | A computer software program, sometimes just called a program or software. |
| Architecture | This is the organization of a microprocessor. |
| Arithmitic Shift | The right or left shift that excludes the most significant bit, and the most significant bit is reserved for the sign bit. |
| ASCII | This is the standard code that represents the alphanumeric charactors and the control codes for transmitting information between different digital devices. |
| Assembler | An assembler is a program that is used to tanslate symbolic statements into the machine language equivalent. |