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  2. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    2NF—second normal form; 3GL—third-generation programming language; 3GPP—3rd Generation Partnership Project – 3G comms; 3GPP2—3rd Generation Partnership Project 2; 3NF—third normal form; 386—Intel 80386 processor; 486—Intel 80486 processor; 4B5BLF—4-bit 5-bit local fiber; 4GL—fourth-generation programming language; 4NF ...

  3. Enhanced Graphics Adapter - Wikipedia

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    The different base addresses for color vs. monochrome modes makes it possible for an EGA to be used simultaneously with a monochrome graphics card in the same computer, or for an EGA in MDA text mode to be used simultaneously with a CGA in the same computer. EGA's native graphics modes are planar, as opposed to the interleaved CGA and Hercules ...

  4. Graphics card - Wikipedia

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    A modern consumer graphics card: A Radeon RX 6900 XT from AMD. A graphics card (also called a video card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially GPU) is a computer expansion card that generates a feed of graphics output to a display device such as a monitor.

  5. Video Graphics Array - Wikipedia

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    VGA section on the motherboard in IBM PS/55. The color palette random access memory (RAM) and its corresponding digital-to-analog converter (DAC) were integrated into one chip (the RAMDAC) and the cathode-ray tube controller was integrated into a main VGA chip, which eliminated several other chips in previous graphics adapters, so VGA only additionally required external video RAM and timing ...

  6. List of computer display standards - Wikipedia

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    The single fixed-screen mode used in first-generation (128k and 512k) Apple Mac computers, launched in 1984, with a monochrome 9" CRT integrated into the body of the computer. Used to display one of the first mass-market full-time GUIs, and one of the earliest non-interlaced default displays with more than 256 lines of vertical resolution.

  7. Electronic design automation - Wikipedia

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    Electronic design automation (EDA), also referred to as electronic computer-aided design (ECAD), [1] is a category of software tools for designing electronic systems such as integrated circuits and printed circuit boards. The tools work together in a design flow that chip designers use to design and analyze entire semiconductor chips.

  8. Computer engineering - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 December 2024. Engineering discipline specializing in the design of computer hardware "Hardware engineering" redirects here. For engineering other types of hardware, see mechanical engineering. For engineering chemical systems, see chemical engineering. Computer engineering Occupation Names Computer ...

  9. Glossary of computer science - Wikipedia

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    A field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another. [100] The components interact with one another in order to achieve a common goal.