rh-ch7-stack2 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
General Protection Fault (GPF) | is an error message generated by Microsoft Windows indicating that a program being used attempted to access a portion of memory that is either invalid or already in use. |
memory bank | is a logical unit of storage in electronics, which is hardware dependent. |
parity | 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 machine error in which an odd number of bits are accidentally changed |
re-marked chips | They have been used, returned to the factory remarked and resold back to retailers. |
RIMM | a memory module developed by Kingston Technology Corp. that takes up less space inside the computer than the older DIMM module and has different pin characteristics. |
SIMM (single inline memory module) | is a small circuit board with a bunch of memory chips on it. |
Single channel | designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel |
single ranked | modern DIMMs can consist of one rank |
single-sided | a disk of which only one side is used to store data |
SO-DIMM (small outline DIMM) | A smaller kind of DIMM with 72 pins (supporting 32-bit transfers) or 144 pins (64-bit transfers) |
synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) | 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 | technology that increases the transfer speed of data between the DRAM memory and the chipset memory controller by adding more channels of communication between them. |
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