Display adapter card
The circuit board installed in one of the computer’s option slots
that provides the interface to which you connect the monitor.
The display adapter card controls the way the monitor displays
text and graphics. Also known as Video card.
DOS
The Disk Operating System that controls the computer’s input
and output functions. See Operating system.
Double-density
A type of diskette format that allows you to store twice as much
data as the standard-density format. A 5 ¼-inch double-density
diskette can store 720KB of data.
The letter name of a disk drive, followed by a colon-for
example, C :
EGA
allows you to display high-resolution graphics on a color
monitor. It can display up to 43 lines of text with 80 characters
at up to 640 x 350 resolution.
Executable file
created with an application program. An executable file has the
extension .BAT, .COM, or .EXE.
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