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What is DBMS?
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Data base management system or database manager, refers to software writen specificaly to control the structure of a data base & acess to data.
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what is DM?
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Data Minning is the computer assisted process of sifting through and analizing vast amounts of data in order to extract meanin and discover kowledge.
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What is Agp?
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Accelerated graphic port,for video and 3D.
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What is a bus?
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data tranfered through the cpu.
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what is ISA?
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inustry standard architecture, bus used to be mostly in expansion bus.
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What is PCI?
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Faster bus than ISA, 32 to 64 bytes wide.
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what is cache?
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temporary stores data & instructions that the processor is lickely to use frequently.
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what is CISC?
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Complex instruction set computing chips, which are used mostly in PCs and conventional mainframes, large number of instructions.
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RISC is?
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used mostly in worksations a great many seldom used intructions are eliminated.
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waht is a flop?
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floting operation per second, a special kind of mathmatical caculation.
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what is AMD?
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adavnced micro device, intel chips for PCs.
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what is EBCDIC?
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extended binary coded decimal interchange code, used for mainframes.
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what is ASCII?
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American standard code for information Interchange, binary code used mostly with microcomputers.
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What is CMOS?
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metal oxide semiconductor chips, powred by battery so they dont lose their contents when the power goes off.
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