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Acronym for Extended Industry-Standard Architecture, a 32-bit expansion-bus design. The expansion-card connectors in an EISA computer are also compatible with 8- or 16-bit ISA expansion cards. To avoid a configuration conflict when installing an EISA expansion card, you must use the EISA Configuration Utility. This utility allows you to specify which expansion slot contains the card and obtains information about the card's required system resources from a corresponding EISA configuration file. communicate with controllers for peripheral devices, such as a network card or an internal modem. A connector on the computer's system board or riser board for plugging in an expansion card. RAM above 1 MB. Most software that can use it, such as the Windows operating system, requires that extended memory be under the control of an XMM. Abbreviation for Electromagnetic Compatibility. Abbreviation for electromagnetic interference. A RAM cache using SRAM chips. Because SRAM chips operate at several times the speed of DRAM chips, the microprocessor can retrieve data and instructions faster from external cache memory than from RAM. Abbreviation for expanded memory manager. A utility that uses extended memory to emulate expanded memory on computers with an Intel386™ or higher microprocessor. Abbreviation for Expanded Memory Specification. Abbreviation for Fahrenheit. Acronym for file allocation table. The file system structure used by MS-DOS to organize and keep track of file storage. The Windows NT and OS/2® operating systems can optionally use a FAT file system structure. Acronym for erasable programmable read-only memory. Abbreviation for Federal Communications Commission. Abbreviation for electrostatic discharge. A technique for accessing RAM above 1 MB. To enable expanded memory on your computer, you must use an EMM. You should configure your system to support expanded memory only if you run application programs that can use (or require) expanded memory. A type of EEPROM chip that can be reprogrammed from a utility on diskette while still installed in a computer; most EEPROM chips can only be rewritten with special programming equipment. To prepare a hard-disk drive or diskette for storing files. An unconditional format deletes all data stored on the disk. Your computer contains an expansion bus that allows the microprocessor to Abbreviation for feet. 6 Dell Precision 410 Mini Tower Systems User's Guide