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Charts and graphs that demonstrate relationships between data in picture form.
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Analytical graphics
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Programs created to perform specific tasks.
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Applications software
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One of two memory sections
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Background memory
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Graphics file that stores images as a collection of dots.
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Bitmaps (Raster graphics)
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Software designed to explore the Internet.
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Browser
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Software that provides access to multiple users (connected by a local-area network) at the same time and creates business possibilities limited only by hardware capabilities.
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Collaborative software (Groupware)
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This section is given to programs that do not require immediate response, such as batch processing.
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Background memory
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System requiring the user to type instructions at the proper place on the screen, indicated by a prompt.
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Command-line system
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Program designed to help users with functions such as downloading software from the Internet, e-mailing, or transmitting business data to a company’s offices around the world.
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Communications program
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Program that allows a user to enter and update data
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Database management program
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This is most useful to a user following trends in related data.
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Database management program
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Programs that access databases and follow trends in data.
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Database management system (DBMS)
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Program that extends the capabilities of word processing to enable page composition and layout so documents can be divided into several arrangements.
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Desktop (electronic) publishing program
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Command-line operating system developed by Microsoft.
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Disk operating system (DOS)
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A list of instructions for using a specific program.
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Documentation
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The unique name that identifies a Web site or Web page
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Domain name
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Enables users to find information or files by typing in a word or phrase.
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File search
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One of two memory sections; this is allocated to those programs given the highest priority, usually interactive ones in which a user is making commands and awaiting immediate responses in a sort of “dialogue” with the computer.
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Foreground memory
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Computer software available free of charge
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Freeware
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Common variation of operating systems; systems use icons & require the user to select the proper picture on the screen, usually with a mouse.
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Graphical user interface systems (GUI)
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Author retains copyright, meaning users cannot do anything with the software that is not allowed by the author.
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Freeware
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Program used to create charts, illustrations, or maps.
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Graphics program
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Initial part of a Web document.
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Home page
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Linking the computer with something or someone else outside of it, or the device that provides this connection.
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Interface
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A company that offers individual users a server that acts as a manager & has special protocol software to direct the user’s access to the Web.
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Internet service provider (ISP)
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The process in which the operating system converts virtual addresses into real addresses.
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Mapping
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Technology that prevents 1 program from writing data into the space allocated for another program, which would overwrite & destroy the 2nd program.
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Memory protection
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A system that allows the connection of several computers & peripherals so that info & resources can be shared.
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Network operating system (NOS)
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Programs that do not remain in permanent memory & are not available until they are called up.
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Nonresident programs
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The capability to connect one applications program to another through objects, automatically activating the necessary program as the user requires it.
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Object linking & embedding (OLE)
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Programs the computer uses to manage itself.
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Operations (operating systems) software
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The process in which items (pages) stored in virtual memory are transferred to real memory
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Paging/swapping
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Technology that enables a computer to automatically reconfigure itself when a peripheral is added.
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Plug and play
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Programs added to browsers to improve their appearance or features.
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Plug-ins
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Programs that take rather limited analytical graphics a step further by enabling the user greater flexibility in adding clip art, adjusting sizes/amnts of text to label graphs, accenting a presentation with sound, etc...
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Presentation graphics programs
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Program that stays in memory permanently, remaining active and available, & is not sent to a storage device to free up disk space.
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Resident program
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An Internet program that seeks Web sites fitting terms specified by the user.
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Search engine
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Software programs released by manufacturers who hope that users will contribute some payment.
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Shareware
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Permission from the manufacturer to make a certain number of copies of software.
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Site license
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Programs the computer uses to manage itself or that enable the user to interact with the computer to perform tasks.
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Software
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Making illegal copies of software.
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Software piracy
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An applications program best suited for such tasks as keeping track of expenditures, entering formulas, or developing graphs.
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Spreadsheet program
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The main managerial component of the operating system.
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Supervisor program
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An abbreviation in an Internet address that usually indicates the purpose or the country of the organization (i.e., .com for “commercial,” .edu for “educational,” and .uk for “United Kingdom”).
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Top-level domain
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Organizes printouts for several users at a time by writing each to a disk, & then sending that data for printing in an orderly fashion.
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Spooling
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A set of standardized rules for data exchange that enables any computer with a modem & the appropriate software to communicate with the Internet’s vast information network
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Transmission control protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
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Internet address used to specify resources on the World Wide Web.
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Uniform resource locator (URL)
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Programs that perform maintenance or correct problems in a computer system; they can be either part of the operating system or add-on software controlled by the user.
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Utility programs
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i.e., .com for “commercial,” .edu for “educational,” and .uk for “United Kingdom”
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Top-level domain
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Images created through complex mathematical formulas.
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Vector graphics (Objectoriented graphics)
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Software commercially produced for one type of business
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Vertical market software
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A storage technique that brings in from the disk only the part of an applications program needed at the time.
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Virtual memory (Virtual storage)
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A program used to create and edit information to be placed on the Internet.
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Web editor
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Location on the Internet.
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Web site
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Applications program used to create text documents.
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Word processing program
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Designed to fulfill the needs of a narrow part of the business market.
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Vertical Market Software
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What is another name for bitmaps?
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Raster graphics
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What is another name for collaborative software?
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Groupware
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What is another name for virtual memory?
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Virtual storage
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What is another name for vector graphics?
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Object-oriented graphics
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What does DBMS stand for?
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Database management system
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What does DOS stand for?
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Disk operating system
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What does GUI stand for?
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Graphical user interface
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What does ISP stand for?
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Internet service provider
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What does NOS stand for?
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Network operating system
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What does OLE stand for?
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Object linking & embedding
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What does TCP/IP stand for?
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Transmission control protocol/ Internet Protocol
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What does URL stand for?
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Uniform resource locator
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