Compaq Evo Notebook PC n115 Users Guide Evo Notebook N115 - Page 113

graphics, hard disk, hardware, preinstalled files.

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Glossary graphics Pictures or illustrations, including drawings, pie charts, bar graphs, street maps, architectural and engineering designs, fashion designs, musical scores, cartoons, animated images, and photographs. A graphics card enables the monitor to display these items on the screen. See also SVGA and XGA. H hard disk Internal storage media for permanent storage of system files, software, and data files. The hard disk consists of flat, round platters. Each side of each platter has a head that floats on a thin cushion of air over the surface of the rapidly spinning disk and picks up (reads) magnetically stored data or records (writes) data onto the disk. hard drive The drive that reads and writes to the hard disk. If you have a large hard drive, it may be divided into several partitions. Each partition is designated by a different icon and a drive letter, beginning, with the letter C. Partition C: contains the files the computer uses to start up. The other partitions contain no preinstalled files. hardware The physical components of a computer-the parts you can physically touch. See also software. HTML The standard language for documents designed for viewing on the Internet with a browser. Tags embedded in the documents mark the location of other electronic files-including text, graphics, audio, and video files. Click on the links to jump from one document to another. Documents formatted for a browser can be identified by the file extension .htm or .html. See also hyperlink. Users Guide 7

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Glossary
Users Guide
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graphics
Pictures or
illustrations, including drawings,
pie charts, bar graphs, street
maps, architectural and
engineering designs, fashion
designs, musical scores,
cartoons, animated images, and
photographs. A graphics card
enables the monitor to display
these items on the screen.
See also
SVGA
and
XGA.
H
hard disk
Internal storage
media for permanent storage of
system files, software, and data
files. The hard disk consists of
flat, round platters. Each side of
each platter has a head that
floats on a thin cushion of air
over the surface of the rapidly
spinning disk and picks up
(reads) magnetically stored data
or records (writes) data onto
the disk.
hard drive
The drive that reads
and writes to the hard disk. If
you have a large hard drive, it
may be divided into several
partitions. Each partition is
designated by a different icon
and a drive letter, beginning,
with the letter C. Partition C:
contains the files the computer
uses to start up. The other
partitions contain no
preinstalled files.
hardware
The physical
components of a computer—the
parts you can physically touch.
See also
software.
HTML
The standard language
for documents designed for
viewing on the Internet with a
browser. Tags embedded in the
documents mark the location of
other electronic files—including
text, graphics, audio, and video
files. Click on the links
to jump from one document to
another. Documents formatted
for a browser can be identified
by the file extension .htm or
.html. See also
hyperlink.