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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| General Protection Fault (GPF) | General Protection Fault is a wacky, zany on-line comic strip full of geeky fun, bizarre characters, and a sentient slime mold or two. |
| memory bank | A memory bank is a logical unit of storage in electronics, which is hardware dependent |
| parity | A parity bit, or check bit, is a bit added to the end of a string of binary code that indicates whether the number of bits in the string with the value one is even or odd. |
| parity error | A parity error is occurring on a PC as it boots up |
| RDRAM | Direct Rambus DRAM or DRDRAM is a type of synchronous dynamic RAM. |
| re-marked chips | Marking processors is part of the chip manufacturing exercise. |
| RIMM | RIMM may refer to: Rambus In-line Memory Module, a packaging for RDRAM · Research In Motion |
| SIMM (single inline memory module) | A SIMM, or single in-line memory module, is a type of memory module containing random access memory used in computers from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. |
| Single channel | Single channel per carrier (SCPC) refers to using a single signal at a given frequency and bandwidth. |
| single ranked | Singe Rank Memory can be memory with chips on only one side of the stick of memory |
| single-sided | a double-sided disk is a disk of which both sides are used to store data. |
| SO-DIMM (small outline DIMM) | An SO-DIMM, or small outline dual in-line memory module, is a type of computer memory built using integrated circuits. |
| synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) | SDRAM (synchronous DRAM) is a generic name for various kinds of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) that are synchronized with the clock speed that the microprocessor is optimized for. |
| triple channels | Triple-channel interleaving reduces overall memory latency by accessing the DIMM memory sequentially |