4 man boat £21
£9 tent
6v 100AH £28ea
Abort/Retry/Ignore 51, 179, 241
Accelerator cards 145, 149-150
Access Time (Discs) 250, 263, 283, 289
Access Time (Memory) 86, 109, 157-8, 160-3
Adaptive Routing 380
ADPCM 285, 452
Additive Mixing 127
Address Bus 65, 70, 76, 79-80, 90, 108-110, 120, 151, 157, 166,338
Address Clashes 310, 338, 353
Addressing Methods 59, 112-3, 144, 148
'AIDS' virus 96
AGP 291
Aliases using Doskey 185
ALU 65, 77-8, 83, 84
Amphenol plug 116
Analogue signals 115, 124, 126, 135, 147, 248, 344, 367, 375, 378, 405-6,
450-1, 492
AND (logic) 74, 78, 101, 395
Animations 75, 143, 427-8, 459
Anode 128, 139
ANSI 10, 154, 173, 182, 258, 491
Anti-Aliasing 134, 146
Anti-Piracy Agencies 24
Anti-Virus Software 295-300, 321
Anton Pillar order 24
AOL 392
APPEND command 182
Appending Virus 291
Archie 394
Archive attribute 41, 48, 49, 276-7
ASCII 10, 16, 68-9, 368, 398
Aspect ratio 126, 133, 287
Assembly Language 91-107
Asterisk as a wildcard 47
Asynchronous 110, 161, 258, 368, 456
AT command set 367, 376-7, 406
AT model PC 88, 90, 109
ATA Interface 249, 257
ATAPI 257, 284
ATM 406, 496
Attenuation 379
ATTRIB command 49
Audio file formats 452
Audio on Demand 393
Audio Theory 450-1
Auditing 24-5, 309-10
Authoring Software 472
AUTOEXEC.BAT 91, 155, 171, 181-5, 193, 306, 318, 325
Autoplay of CDs 230
AUX device 173
AVI files 149, 284, 428, 459, 461-4
AZERTY keyboard 182
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
B
Backache 137, 333
Backup 34, 48, 49, 239, 266, 276-9
Bandwidth 83, 125, 143, 375, 378, 401
Bandwidth On Demand 406, 496
Bannerware 22
Baseband transmissions 489, 492-3
Batch Files 196-205
Baud rate 212, 233, 355, 372
Baudot 69
BCD 66, 69, 385
BCS 24
BEDO 113, 158, 162
Bi-directional 9, 118, 119, 232, 337, 382
Binary Numbering 66-7, 69, 71, 91, 93
BIOS 31, 65, 80, 81, 82, 89, 114, 120, 131, 153, 157, 159, 165, 170, 248,
254-6, 332, 360
BIOS extensions 114, 131, 145, 150, 158, 170, 191, 249, 346
Bit 69
Bitmap images 215, 232, 457, 458, 460, 470
Blue Book CD 284, 286
BMP files 217, 229, 458
Boot Failure 329
Boot Record 170, 248, 262, 264-5, 293-4
Boot Sector Virus 292-4
Bootstrapping 170, 173
Branch Prediction 84, 89
Branching (batch files) 200
Branching (assembler) 80, 98, 104
BREAK 179, 372
Breaks for operators 137, 138, 334
Breakout Box 371-2
Broadband transmission 406, 492-3
BSA 24
Buffers - Disc 171-2, 174-6, 260, 284
- DOSKEY 184-5
- Modem 369-70, 372, 373
- Network card 481, 482, 483, 485, 486
- Pre-fetch 84
- Printer 13, 167, 216
- Video frame 144, 147
- XCOPY 48
BUFFERS command 171-2, 177, 186, 189
Buffering 114, 115
Bulletin Boards 21, 23, 303, 315, 387, 468
Burst Mode 84, 88, 89, 158, 162
Bus architectures 108-112
Byte 4, 9, 70, 118
BASE 436
BGCOLOR 417, 419, 426, 430
BR 417, 421, 424
BLOCKQUOTE 417
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
C
Cache controllers 87
Caching of discs 167, 174-7, 235, 260, 284, 319-20
Caching of CPU 84, 85, 86-8, 89, 90, 113, 158
Cache hits/misses 87, 260-1, 319
CALL in assembler 104, 107
CALL in batch files 205
'Cascade' virus 291, 292
Cases (computer) 356
CAV/ZCAV 283, 288
CBT/CAL 447
CCITT 119, 366, 371, 374, 458
CD command 43
CD-I 285, 465
CD-ROM discs 16, 282-3, 407
CD-ROM drives 283-4, 350-1
CD standards 284-6
CD XA 285
CD-Bridge 285
CDFS 284
CDR files 458
CD-R 286
Centronics See 'Parallel Port'
CGA 17, 126, 131, 133, 135, 147, 152
CGI scripting 440, 444
CHKDSK command 271-2, 292, 294, 306, 317, 383
Cinepak 463, 464
CISC 89, 90
CIX 315
Client/Server systems 484
Client/Server Software 500
Clipboard 54, 56-7, 61, 458
Clipping level 243
Clock Multiplying 85, 340
Clock Speeds 70, 83, 90, 108, 109, 11, 330, 340-1
CLP files 57, 458
CLS 37, 194
Cluster Virus 291
Clusters 241, 263, 268-9, 271-3
CMF files 455, 459
CMOS 31, 158, 165, 255, 331, 332
CMYK 11, 127
Coaxial cable 489, 493
CODECs 451, 463-5
Coercivity (Oersteds) 243, 244, 247, 252, 254, 288
Colour monitors See 'Monitors'
Colour purity 129, 307
COM files 39, 78, 96, 154
COM ports 17, 119, 173, 183, 212, 318, 337, 353, 365, 367, 372
Command Calls, Order 194
Command recall 184-5
COMMAND.COM 50, 51, 153-4, 171, 194
Composite drive 135
Compression- files 118, 280-1, 321, 323, 438
- discs 282
- video 285, 462-4
- datacomms files 280, 371, 377, 385, 399
COMSPEC 179, 183
CompuServe 21, 315, 378, 379, 458
Computer Misuse Act 29, 31, 291
CON device 173
Concurrency 1
CONFIG.SYS - what it is 171, 318, 325
- commands 171-181
Control Bus 65, 76
CONTROL.INI 221
Convergence 129, 134, 139, 141, 330
Cookies 300, 322, 409
Co-processors - CPU 5, 83, 85-6, 89
- graphics 142, 145, 149
Copying files 45-8, 55, 63
Copyright 23, 31, 403, 410, 446, 452, 467, 468, 469
Costing equipment 362-3
Country information 173, 182, 211, 230, 234
CPI (chars per inch) 12
CPU - Introduction 76-8
- Range of types 88-90
- Fetch-Execute Cycle 78-9
- Pipelining 83, 84, 89-90
- Pre-fetching 77, 83, 84
- Superscalar 84, 89
CRC checks 241, 257, 296, 373, 482
Creating DOS directories See 'MD'
Ctrl-Break keys 7, 154, 179, 197, 200
Cylinders 245, 247, 248-9, 256, 262
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
D
'Dark Avenger' virus 292
Data Bus 65, 70, 76, 79-80, 90, 108, 109, 110, 120, 258, 485
Data Protection Act 32-3, 402, 403
Data Transfer Rate- CPU/memory 108, 109, 110
- CD 283, 285
- Disc 113, 251, 254, 256, 257, 258
- Comms 371, 406
DCE 365, 367-8, 371, 378
DDC1, DDC2 135
Deadlock 498, 508
DEFRAG, defragmenters 214, 235, 255, 270, 306, 320
Degaussing 129
DEL command 37, 45, 47
Deleting files 45, 55, 63, 222
DELTREE command 44
Density of discs 9, 240, 242-4, 247
Desktop settings 217-8, 226-30
Device drivers 15, 120, 152, 154, 168, 170-1, 173-8, 182, 219, 298, 318,
483
Device Manager 118, 230, 233, 237-8, 323
DEVICEHIGH 189, 190-1
DHTML 444
Diagnostic Tools- CHKDSK 268, 271-2, 306, 317
- Device Manager See 'Device Manager'
- MSD 116, 119, 191, 317-9, 337
- Registry Checker 325
- SmartMon 319-20
- System File Checker 325
- System Information 325
- System Properties 323
- WinCheckit 317, 322, 336, 338, 349, 350
Dial-up lines 374, 379, 387, 392
Digital Signal Processing 451, 453, 465
Digitised Sound 450-1
DIMMs 113, 158, 162, 164, 342
DIP switches 10, 13, 148, 152, 258, 311, 367
DIR command 40-1, 47, 49, 183, 185, 194, 263, 269
DIRCMD 179, 183-4
Direct Cable Connection 61, 326, 381, 383
Directory structures- Changing Directory 43, 55, 62
- Creating Directories 33-4, 43-4, 55, 63
- Path to directories 25-6, 42
- Removing Directories 44, 55, 63
- Viewing the structure 44-5, 54-5, 62
DirectX 146, 224
Discs and Drives- Access Time See 'Access Time'
- Backup See 'Backup'
- Basics 8-9, 240-2
- Cache controllers 189, 260-1
- Caching of discs See 'Caching'
- Cache hits/misses 87, 260-1, 319
- Care of discs 9, 244-5
- Clusters See 'Clusters'
- Coercivity (Oersteds) 243, 244, 247, 252, 254, 288
- Compression 282
- Controller cards 81,111,152, 158-9, 170, 189, 215, 240, 241, 249, 251,
252, 253-5, 257, 258-9, 315, 331, 345
- Density 9, 240, 242-4, 247
- Directory Area 266-7
- DOS Boot Record See 'Boot Record'
- DOS organisation 262-70
- DTR See 'Data Transfer Rate'
- Drives and the BIOS See 'BIOS'
- Encoding methods 252-3tr>
- Entry 47 256
- FAT See 'FAT'
- Floppy discs/drives 8, 9, 48, 49-50, 56, 64, 178, 242, 251, 263, 265,
267, 331, 347-8
- Formatting 9, 48, 49-50, 56, 64, 241, 274-5
- Fragmentation 270, 306
- Interleave 251-2, 253, 254
- Interfaces 253-9
- Low level format 241, 251, 274
- Master Boot Record 264-5, 293-4
- Partitions 34, 214, 235, 247-9, 262, 264-5, 274-5, 293-4, 321
- Recording terms 9
- RECOVER command 272
- SCANDISK 269, 272, 306
- Stepper motors 249
- Voice coils 249
- Write precompensation 256, 259
DISKCOPY 48, 194, 293
DL 421
DLLs 223, 238-9, 260, 291, 320, 325
DMA 114, 118, 120, 257, 318, 323, 337-8, 373, 481-2
DNS 390, 392
DOS- What it is 36, 168
- Error messages 36, 51, 154, 233
- Installation 195
- DOS from Windows 54, 61
- Redirection 37, 183, 185
- Upgrading 195
DOSKEY 184-5, 194, 263
Dot Pitch in monitors See 'Monitors'
Double Buffering 175
Down Time 309
DPMS power saving 131, 148
DRAM See 'Memory'
Drivers See 'Device Drivers'
DSE 365, 384
DRIVER.SYS 178
DTE 365, 367-8, 370, 371-2, 378
DVD 61, 238, 287-8, 465, 466
Dynamic Range 450-1
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
E
ECHO in batch files 196-7
EBCDIC numbering 69
ECP 118, 383
ECC 113, 164, 165, 486
EDO RAM 113, 144, 145, 158, 162, 163, 164
EEPROM 159, 160
EGA 5, 17, 126, 131, 133, 135, 147, 152, 344
EIDE 113, 252, 256, 354
EISA bus 110-1, 112, 113, 114, 485
Elevator Seeking 246, 253, 261
ELSPA 24
E-Mail 21, 59, 300, 342, 380, 384, 385, 386, 388, 391, 397-8, 400, 437
EMS 158, 166, 167-8, 189, 192
Emulations 13, 364, 381, 385, 454
Energy Star Programme 112, 130-1
Enhanced Mode 56, 206, 207, 219, 342
Environment area 158, 179, 181, 182, 183-4
Entry 47 256
EPP 118, 358
EPROM 145, 159-60
EPS files, Postscript 13, 216, 232, 259, 458
Errorlevel 200
Error Detection (datacomms) 371, 373-4
ESDI 215, 252, 253-4, 281, 345
Ethernet 474, 478, 480, 488, 489, 493, 495-6
EVGA 131, 134
EXCLUDE command 191-2
Expanded Memory See 'EMS'
Explorer (Internet) 59, 392, 393, 414, 419
Explorer (Windows) 62-4, 230, 234, 237, 300, 464
Extended Memory See 'XMS'
Extranet 402
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
F
Fantavision 458
FAT 247, 267-9
FAT32 59, 224, 249, 273, 281
FAT Problems 271-2
Fault Finding 328-31
FCBS 181, 183
FDDI 491, 495
FDISK See 'Partitioning'
FDM 378
Feature connector 147, 465
Fetch-Decode-Execute 78-9
Fibre Optic cable 388, 406, 450-1, 493, 495, 496
File Associations 220, 234
File attributes 41, 49, 51, 266-7, 269, 273, 276, 497
File extensions 38-40
File Locking 183, 497-8
File Manager (Windows) 54-6, 218, 222
FILES command 172, 181, 186
Fingerprinting 296, 298
FireWire 59, 113, 121-2, 466
FLI files 459
Floppy discs See 'Discs & Drives'
Floating frames 435
Floptical Drives 289
Flow Control See 'Handshaking'
Fonts 13, 213, 215-6, 221, 228, 231, 232, 413, 418, 449
FONT in HTML 419
FOR IN DO (batch files) 203-4
Formatting discs See 'Discs & Drives'
Fragmentation 270, 306
Frames in HTML 432-6
Frame refresh speeds 124-5
FRAMESET 432-4
Freeware 22
FTP 385, 386, 387, 394, 398-9, 440-1
Full-Duplex 378, 454
Full-Motion Video (FMV) 122, 285, 461
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
G
GIF files 414, 415, 424, 427, 458, 459
Graphic File formats 458
Generic Virus Scanners 295-6, 298
Glare from monitor screens 130, 138, 359
Gopher 394
GOTO in batch files 200-1, 204
Graphics cards - 3D cards 146
- Accelerator See 'Accelerator'
- AGP 59, 112, 148
- Connections 7, 147
- Bandwidth 143
- Chip Set 145
- Co-processor 149
- RAM Size 142-3
- RAM Type 144
- RAMDACs 145, 147
Green Book CD 284, 285, 465
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
H
Hacking 29, 31, 400, 402
Half-Duplex Data Links 369, 374, 378, 385
Handshaking 117, 118, 365, 369-70, 374, 382, 483
Hayes AT commands See 'AT commands'
Heads 8, 153, 240-50
Help Desk - Aims 312
- Aids 314
- Record Keeping 312
- Resources 314-5
Help in DOS 37
Help in Windows 28, 52, 58, 59, 61
Hercules 5, 126, 133, 152
Health & Safety - Acts 333-4
- Monitors 136-7
- Safe Practices 136, 310-11
Hidden files 41, 49, 153, 213, 237, 281
HIMEM.SYS 167, 174, 177, 187, 188-9, 207
HMA 158, 188-9, 192
Home page 408, 416
HPGL files 458
HR 417-8
HREF 422-3
HTML 416-37
Hypertext 52, 393, 447
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
I
IDE 246, 248, 252, 254-7, 259, 274, 281, 345-6, 354
IF EXIST in batch files 202-3
IF in batch files 200-3
IFF files 452
IFRAME 435
IMG 415, 424, 425, 426
INCLUDE command 191-2
Indeo 463
Information Superhighway 384
Infrared 122, 354, 383, 491
INI Files 219-22, 231, 235, 238, 318, 320
Installing DOS 195
Interactive Video 447
Interlaced monitors 125
Interlaced GIFs 427
Interleave for discs 251-2, 253, 254
Interleave for memory 144, 161, 162, 164
Interleave for video 285, 287, 459, 461, 462
Interlink 381, 382-3
Intermittent Problems 330, 335
Internet - Addresses 390-1
- Basics 388
- E-mail 397-8
- FTP 398-9
- ISDN 405
- ISPs 392
- Newsgroups 400
- Performance 401
- Security 402
- Social issues 403-4
- Structure/Admin 388-9
- Web searches 394-5
Interrupts (IRQs) 80-2, 238, 318, 325, 336-7, 353
Interrupts (DOS) 81, 95-6, 117, 153, 212, 215, 293
Intranets 402
I/O addresses 338, 339, 353
IO.SYS 153, 170, 173, 188
IP addresses 385, 386-7, 390-1
ISA bus 109-12
ISDN 405-6
ISO/OSI 7-Layer Model 384-5
ISO 9002 362
ISO 9241 136, 137, 333
ISO 9660 284, 285
ISO IS2110 119, 366
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
J
JAVA/JavaScript 300, 393, 396, 409
'Jerusalem' virus 291, 292
'Joshi' virus 292
JPEG files 280, 415, 424, 458
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
K
KERMIT 373, 374, 378
KEYB command 155, 182, 189
Keyboard - Key groups 6-7
- Connecting 17
- Cleaning 305
- Failure 329
- Settings 209-10, 230
- RSI 334
Kerr Effect 288
KiloStream 379, 476
Kodak Photo CD 284, 286
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
L
LABEL command 49, 194
Labels in assembler 94, 95, 97, 98, 104, 106-7
Labels in batch files 200-1
Local Area Networks - Advantages/Features 474-8
- Client/Server 500
- Collisions 480
- Interface cards 351-2, 481-4
- LAN standards 493
- LANs and Unix 475
- Media/cabling 487-91, 493-6
- Print Servers 487
- Servers 484-6
- Software 497-500
- Topologies 478-9
LASTDRIVE command 179, 348, 351
Latency period 250
Liquid Crystal Display 136, 140-1, 210, 229, 467
Letterbox viewing 287
Library for media storage 34-5
Licensing agreements 22-3, 110, 357, 469, 491, 499
Line refresh speeds 125
Lists in HTML 420-1
LOADHIGH 189-90
Local bus systems - VESA bus 112
- PCI bus 85, 112, 256
- PCMCIA 119-20, 381
Long filenames 58, 273
Low level format 241, 251, 274
LPT device 173
LPT ports See 'Parallel Port'
LRU algorithm 261
LZW (Lempel-Ziv-Welch) 280-1, 458
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
M
Macros in assembler 92, 94, 107
Macros with DOSKEY 185, 263
Macros in Windows 57
Macros virus 290, 292, 299-300
Magneto-Optical Drives 288-9
MAILTO 437
Maintenance programme 299-303
Main Group in Windows 54
MARQUEE 426
Maths co-processors 5, 83, 85-6, 89
Master Boot Record (MBR) See 'Boot Record'
MCA bus 110, 112, 114, 149, 482, 485
MCGA 133, 445, 459
MD command 43-4, 176, 194
MDA 126, 133, 152
MDRAM 158, 162
Media Change Line 245
MegaHertz 5, 125
MegaStream 379
MEM command 186-90
MemMaker 190-1
Memory - Access 151
- Bandwidth 83, 143
- BEDO 113, 158, 162
- Bus 111
- Burst Mode 88, 158, 162
- Cache See 'Cache Memory'
- CMOS See 'CMOS'
- DIMMs 113, 158, 162, 164, 342
- DIPs 162
- DRAM 88, 144, 157, 158, 160-1
- EDO 113, 144, 145, 158, 162, 163, 164
- EEPROM 159-60
- EMS (Expanded ) See 'EMS'
- Environment See 'Environment'
- EPROM 145, 159-60
- HMA 158, 188-9, 192
- Interleaving 144, 161, 162, 164
- Management 186-91
- MDRAM 158, 162
- Organisation 156-7
- Parity 81, 113, 162-5
- PC100 modules 113, 158
- PROM 159
- RDRAM 145, 158, 162, 164
- RIMM 158, 164
- ROM 3, 13, 65, 153, 159, 170, 191, 374, 480
- SDRAM 113, 145, 158, 162
- SGRAM 144, 145, 158, 162
- SIMMs 113, 161, 162-5, 341-2
- SRAM 88, 158, 161
- Synchronised 161
- System area 152, 158
- UMB 158, 166, 176, 189, 191
- User area 152, 154, 156, 158
- VRAM 144, 158, 162
- WRAM 144, 145, 158, 162
- XMS (Extended) See 'XMS'
Memory Management 186-91
Merging files 46
META 439
MFLOPs 4, 83
MFM 252-3, 345
MIRROR command 185,, 294, 383
M-JPEG 463, 464, 465
MNP 371, 374, 377
Modems - Definition 16, 367
- Error Detection 373
- Handshaking 369-70
- Hayes AT Commands 367, 376-7, 406
- Modem Lights 377
- Modulation 370-1
- Parity 368-9
- Synchronisation 367
- 'V' standards 374
- Wiring 366, 367
- 56k technology 375
Monitor - Adjustments 138-9
- Aspect ratio 126, 133, 287
- Bandwidth 125, 143
- Basics 5, 123
- Checks 329
- Cleaning 138, 305
- Colour principles 127
- Colour purity 129, 307
- Connections 147, 344
- Convergence See 'Convergence'
- Degaussing 129
- Dot Pitch 130, 132
- Energy saving 112, 130-1
- Frame/Line refresh speeds 90
- Health & Safety 136-7
- Interlacing 125
- Modulation 124, 135
- Resolution See 'Dot Pitch'
- Scanning 122-3
- Screen sizes 132, 134
- Shadow Mask tube 128-9
- Synchronisation 125-6
- Trinitron tubes 130
- VESA video modes 150
- Video memory 142-4
- Video standards 126, 131, 133-4, 149
MIDI 21, 233, 349, 453-4, 456-7, 463
MIME 398
MODE command 183
MORE 180, 194, 196
Motherboard 3, 112, 113, 164, 340
Mouse 183, 210, 353-4
MOUSE command 183, 210, 354
MOVE command 46
MPC1, MPC2, MPC3 448
MPEG, MPEG2 90, 148, 149, 285, 287, 288, 428, 462-5
MP3 280, 456, 467
MSVC 463
MSD See 'Diagnostic Tools'
MSDOS.SYS 50, 153, 170, 188, 195, 237, 265, 329
MTBF 250, 362, 486
Multi-configuration 192-3
Multimedia - Basics 445-6
- Animations 459-60
- Audio File Formats 452
- Audio Theory 450-1
- Forerunners 447
- Full-Motion Video 122, 285, 461
- Graphic Files 457-8
- MIDI See 'MIDI'
- Music Basics 455
- Music File Formats 455-6
- Recording/Editing 452-3
- Standards 448
- Sound Cards 453-4
- Software 470, 472
- Video 461-5
Multiplexing 122, 140, 378, 379, 490, 492
Multi-tasking systems 21, 52, 88, 114, 156, 167, 206, 270, 342
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
N
Navigation Map 471, 472
Native Signal Processing 465
Networks See 'LANs'
Network interface cards 351-2, 481-4
Nibble 69, 117
Noise (acoustic) 12, 136, 328, 333
Noise (electrical) 135, 248, 253, 258, 335, 349, 371, 379, 454
NTSC 461, 463
NUL device 173, 197, 202
Null Modem Cable 381-2, 488
Numbering Systems- Decimal 66
- ASCII 10, 16, 68-9, 368, 398
- Baudot 60tr>
- BCD 66, 69, 385
- Binary 66-7, 69, 71, 91, 93
- EBCDIC 69
- Hexadecimal 67-8
- Octal 69
Number conversions 66-7
NUMLOCK command 180
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
O
Octal Numbering 69
Orange Book CD 84, 286
OSI standards 384
Overdrive chips 89, 339-40
Overlays 156, 176
Over-writing Virus 291
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
P
P-Rating 83
PAL 135, 461, 463, 464
Parallel Port 18, 115, 116-8, 173, 318, 337, 353, 354, 381, 382, 383
Parity for memory 81, 113, 162-5
Parity bit (datacomms) 355-6, 359
Partitioning See 'Discs and Drives'
Passwords 30-1, 227, 239, 282, 301, 352, 392, 399, 402, 408, 440, 441
PATHs 25-6, 42
PAUSE in batch files 194, 197
PC100 module 113, 158
PCAV 283
PCI 85, 112, 256
PCI Chipsets 113
PCMCIA 119-20, 381
PCX files 220, 458, 461, 468
Pentium CPUs 84, 85, 87, 88, 89-90, 113, 156, 163, 339-40
Photo CD 284, 286
Partition Sector Virus 293-4, 295
Phase Change discs 288, 289
Pipelining See 'CPU'
Piracy 23-4
Platters 245, 246, 248
Plotters 16, 154, 458
Plug And Play 59, 114, 116, 121, 135
PNG file 458
Pointing Devices See 'Mouse'
POP (assembler) 105, 107
POP (Internet) 386, 388-9, 392
POST 157, 164, 170, 293, 328, 331
PPP 387
Pre-fetching 77, 83, 84
Pre-pending Virus 291
Printing a file 38, 51, 55, 64
Print Servers 487
Printer - Adding Paper 14
- Buffers 13, 115, 167
- Daisy Wheel/Thimble 11
- Connecting 18
- Dot matrix 9-11
- Emulations 13, 212, 364
- Fonts 13, 117, 213, 215-6, 231-2
- In Windows 211-3, 232-3
- Ink Jet 11
- Lasers 11-2, 14, 131, 305, 333
- Output lines 117
- Postscript 13, 216, 232, 259, 458
- Print quality 12
- Printer characters 10-1
- Printer drivers 13, 154, 173, 211, 216, 232, 318
- Proportional spacing 12
- With DOS 37-8, 183
PRN device 37, 45, 173, 183
Processing Systems 20-1
PROGMAN.INI 222
Program Groups/Items 53-4, 217
Program Manager 53, 214, 219
PROM 159
PROMPT command 179, 182, 194
PrtScr 7, 18, 37, 81, 95, 183, 468
Protocols (comms) 212, 220, 233, 352, 371, 373-4, 378, 384, 386, 387, 388,
394, 483-4, 493, 494, 496
PSTN 379
PSDN 380
Public Domain software 22, 464, 468
Purity See 'Colour Purity'
Push technology 409
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
Q
QuickTime 149, 393, 396, 462, 463, 470
Quad density discs 9, 242-3
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
R
Radiation from monitors 136-7
Raid technology 469
RAMDACs 145, 147
RAMDRIVE 176-7
RAW files 232, 452, 467
RD command 44
RDRAM 145, 158, 162, 164
Read Attribute 41, 49, 302
Recorder in Windows 57
Record Locking 25, 183, 498-9
Recording/Editing a sound 452-3
RECOVER command 272
Red Book CDs 284-5
Redirection 37, 44, 45
Registry 225, 231, 238-9, 279, 322, 325
Renaming files 46, 55, 63
Replaceable parameters 179, 185, 198-9, 203, 204
Resolution of monitors See 'Monitors'
Restoring from a backup 178, 193, 273-4
RGB 128, 135, 147, 344, 414, 417, 419
RIMM 158, 164
RLE 118, 280, 458, 463
RISC 89, 90
RLL 248, 252-3, 281, 345
ROL files 456
ROM See 'Memory'
ROM Shadowing 145, 157
RS232 See 'Serial Port'
RSI 334
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
S
Sampling rate for sounds 285, 375, 451
SatStream 379
SCANDISK 269, 272, 306
Scanners 16, 61, 350, 468-9
Screen sizes 132, 134
SCSI 73, 175, 246, 249, 252, 258-9, 274, 346-7
SDRAM 113, 145, 158, 162
Search engines 394-5, 416, 439, 442
SECAM 461
Seat Adjustment 136, 137
Sectors of discs 9, 49, 241-2, 246, 248-9, 254, 256, 259, 262-3, 267, 273
Security 1, 6, 21, 29-31, 35, 399, 402, 477
Seek Time 250, 289, 350
Serial Port 17-8, 119, 122, 173, 183, 212, 220, 233, 318, 337, 353, 365-,
370
Servers 21, 22, 349, 382-3, 386, 388, 390, 393, 397-8, 399, 400, 408, 475,
484-7
SETVER command 180
SGRAM 144, 145, 158, 162
Shadow Mask tube 128-9
SHARE command 155, 183, 194, 497
Shareware 22-3, 35
SHELL command 171, 178-9, 183, 219
SHIFT in assembler 102-3
SHIFT in batch files 204-5
Shockwave 428
SIF 463
Signature Scanning 295, 298
SIMD 89, 90, 385
SIMMs See 'Memory'
Simplex Data Link 378, 385
Single-tasking systems 20-1
SIPs 161, 162
Sleuth/Winsleuth 317, 336, 337, 338, 339, 349, 359, 353
SLIP 387
SMARTDRV 167, 174-7, 189, 260-1, 306, 319
SmartMon 319-20
Socket numbers (CPU 113, 339-40
Socket (networks) 387
Socket services 120
Software - Application 19-20
- Freeware 22
- Installation 25-6
- Licensing agreements 22
- Piracy 23-4
- P D/Shareware 22-3, 35, 464, 468
- System 19, 20-1
Software Audits 24-5, 30, 309-10
Sound Cards 178, 284, 349, 351, 450-1, 453-4, 456
SRAM 88, 158, 161
ST412 253-4
ST506 215, 253
Stack operations 78, 180
STACKS command 180
Standard Mode (Windows) 193, 206
Star Networks 479
Start Menu 60, 61, 227
Stealth Virus 294, 298
Stepper motors 249, 250, 253
'Stoned' Virus 293
STP 488, 493
Stress 137, 138, 334
Stylesheets/CSS 444
SUBST command 179
Subtractive mixing 127
Superscalar architecture 84, 889
SVGA 5, 17, 126, 131, 132, 133, 147, 191, 344
Swap Files in Windows 213-4, 219, 235
SYSEDIT 221
System Area of memory 152
System discs 48, 50, 195
System Files See 'COMMAND.COM', IO.SYS', MSDOS.SYS'
SYSTEM.INI 207, 219, 235, 310, 318, 326
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
T
TaskBar 61, 64
Task Manager in Windows 56
TCO-92/95/99 131, 137
TCP/IP 383, 385, 386-7, 390, 392, 475, 483-4, 494
'Telefonica' virus 294
'Tequila' virus 292, 294, 297
Teleworking 382, 403, 477
TELNET 385, 386, 387, 484
TFT 141
TGA files 458, 468
Theft Alarms 30
ThinNet 478, 489
ThickNet 478, 489, 495
TIFF files 458, 461, 468
Time Bomb 290, 293
Token-Ring 387, 478-9, 488, 490, 493, 496
Trackerball 16
Tracks on discs 8, 240, 242-4, 245, 246, 248
Transceivers 488, 489
TREE command 44-5
Trinitron 130
Trojan Horse 290, 292, 293
TSRs 82, 155-6, 166, 184, 189, 208, 284, 294, 298, 318, 352, 387, 487
TTL 124, 125, 133
Twain 469
Twisted Pair cable See 'STP' and 'UTP'
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
U
UART 119, 365, 372, 373, 406
ULAW files 452
Ultra-DMA 256, 257, 346
Undeleting files 45, 58, 63, 185, 267
Unified Memory Architecture 157
Uninstalling Windows components 222, 226
Unix - Characteristics 501
- Process concept 502-3
- Memory allocation 504-6
- Scheduling 506-7
- Deadlock 508
- Commands 510-6, 520-5
- Editing files 516-9
- Mail 525
- Install/Configure 526-33
- System Admin 533-7
- Controlling users 538-41
- Printing 541-4
- Backup 545-9
- Disaster Recovery 550-3
- Installing nodes 555-7
Upgrading DOS 195
Upgrading a PC - Compatibility issues 334, 336-9
- Safety/handling 334-5
- Adding memory 342-3
- Connecting a mouse 353-4
- Fitting a CD ROM 350-1
- Fitting a CPU upgrade 339-41
- Fitting a floppy drive 347-8
- Fitting a network card 351-2
- Fitting a second IDE 345-6
- Fitting a serial port 353
- Fitting a sound card 349
- Fitting a scanner 350
- Fitting a UPS 348-9
- Fitting a ZIP drive 354
- Upgrading a motherboard 341-2
- Upgrading an IDE drive 345
- Upgrading to a UDMA drive 346
- Upgrading to a SCSI drive 346-7
- Upgrading video 343-4
Uploading 375, 398-9, 440-1
Upper Memory Area (UMA) 152, 158
Upper Memory Blocks 158, 166, 176, 186, 188, 189, 191
UPS 330, 348-9, 486
URL 394, 422, 423, 442
USB 59, 112, 113, 121, 122, 354, 406
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
V
'V' standards for modems 374
Vcache 176, 235, 260, 261, 342
Vector images 457
Vector table 82, 154, 336
VERIFY command 48
VESA bus 112, 144
VESA standards 124, 126, 131, 133, 134, 135, 147, 150, 157
VGA 5, 17, 125, 126, 131, 132, 133, 143, 145, 147, 344
Video Accelerators See 'Accelerator'
Video file formats 461
Virtual memory 156, 206, 213-4, 219, 235
Viruses - Definitions/Methods 290-2
- Anti-Virus products 296-8
- Boot Sector Problems 293-4
- File Viruses 294
- Fingerprinting 296, 298
- Macro 290, 292, 299-300
- Scanning Techniques 295-6
- Virus Activity 293-4
- Virus Elimination 298-9
- Virus Prevention 301-2
VM-Channel 147
VOC files 452, 453, 459
VOL command 37, 49, 194
Von Neuman architecture 84, 151
VRAM 144, 158, 162
VRML 393, 396
VTOC 282
VxD 291, 298, 320, 325, 387
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
W
Wait states 86, 109
WAV files 428, 452, 456, 457
Wavetable 349, 454
Web Sites - Characteristics 407-9
- Design 410-5
- Frames 432-6
- Graphics 424-7
- HTML 416-37
- Hyperlinks 422-3
- Lists 420-1
- Promotion 439, 442-3
- Tables 429-31
Web viruses 300
White Book CD 284, 285, 465
Wildcards 47, 49, 56, 204, 295
WIN.INI 207, 219, 220-1, 231, 310, 318, 320, 326
Windows 3.1 - Basics 52-3, 206
- Accessories Group 54, 61
- Altering options 208-11, 219-22
- Clipboard 56-7
- Custom Objects 218
- Desktop 217
- DOS Prompt 54
- Enhanced Mode 206
- File Manager 54-5, 222
- Fonts 54, 215-6
- Installation 207-8
- Main Group 54
- Printers 211-3
- Program Groups/Items 53, 216
- Program Manager 53
- Recorder 57
- Standard Mode 206
- Task Manager 56
- Uninstalling 222
- Virtual memory 213-4
Windows 95 - Basics 58-61
- Hardware Requirements 58
- Viruses 298
Windows 98 - Basics 59-61
- DVD 239
- Hardware Requirements 59
- Magnifier 239
- Maintenance Wizard 324
- Multiple Monitors 239
- Registry Checker 322, 325
- Schedule Tasks 324
Windows 95/98 - Accessories Menu 61
- Caching 235
- CD Autoplay 230
- Creating Shortcuts 226
- Device Manager 237
- Display 228-9
- DOS 235, 236, 237
- Explorer 62-4
- File Associations 234
- Fonts 231
- Installing 223-5, 225-6
- Keyboard 230
- Long filenames 58, 273
- Mouse 229
- Printers 232-3
- Registry 238-9
- Start Menu 61, 227
- System Monitor 236
- TaskBar 64
- Troubleshooters 326
- Uninstalling 224-5
- Virtual Memory 235
- Volume Control 233
Winsock 387, 392
WMF files 458
Worm drive 282, 289
WRAM 144, 145, 158, 162
Write Precompensation 256, 259
WWW (World Wide Web) 393-6
WYSIWYG 131, 215, 437
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
X
XCOPY command 48, 194, 347
Xeon 3, 88, 90, 113, 158
XGA 131, 134, 147, 149, 344
XModem 373, 374, 378
XMS (Extended Memory) 157, 165-7, 186-90, 346
XOn/XOff 212, 369, 370, 377
XT model PC 6, 77, 88, 90, 108, 111, 112, 151, 189, 255, 337, 347
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
Y
Year 2000 332
Yellow Book CD 284, 285
YModem 374, 378
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
Z
ZIF socket 339
ZModem 374, 378
Zoo compression 280
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
Misc
286 CPU 85, 88, 90, 109, 163
32-bit Access 215
386 CPU 84, 85, 87, 88, 90, 109, 163
486 CPU 84, 85, 87, 88, 89, 90, 109, 163, 339, 340
8086 CPU 84, 85, 88, 90, 156, 166, 167, 206
8514/A 47, 49, 204
* Wildcard 47
? Wildcard 47
56k technology 375
