V.90 Definition:
An ITU’s modem standard, agreed on 4 February 1998, which brought to an end a year-long 56 Kbit/s standards battle between the rival proprietary X2 and K56Flex standards.
BIOS – What motherboard BIOS does for a PC
All motherboards include a small block of Read Only Memory (ROM) which is separate from the main system memory used for loading and running … [Read More...]
Motherboard Floppy Connections
Note that the floppy drive connector ... ... and cable are keyed, to ensure proper connection. … [Read More...]
Multi-Core Processors
In October 1989, envisioning the future through the lens of Moore's Law, four Intel technologists authored an article … [Read More...]
Laser Printer Operation
Where the image to be printed is communicated to it via a page description language, the printer's first job is to convert … [Read More...]
Soundcard Consumer Info
The Sound Blaster Audigy card can also be connected to a variety of external consumer devices. Disabling and Uninstalling Soundcards How … [Read More...]
Memory Upgrades
In recent times, as well as becoming much cheaper, RAM has also become more complicated. There are currently a proliferation … [Read More...]
SDRAM
The more recent Synchronous DRAM memory works quite differently from other memory types. It exploits the fact that most PC … [Read More...]
SCSI Internal Connections
The SCSI devices inside a computer are attached to an internal SCSI cable. The last device on the cable must be terminated. Most internal SCSI … [Read More...]
3D Rendering
In the rendering stage, performed by the hardware accelerator, the 3D engine draws the pixels. The bottleneck here is memory … [Read More...]
CD-ROM The Disc
The basic CD-ROM (Compact Disc - Read Only Memory) is 120mm in diameter and is basically a 1.2mm sandwich of three coatings: … [Read More...]
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