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  2. Display device - Wikipedia

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    Nixie tubes, LED display and VF display, top to bottom Display board at Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof (2005). A display device is an output device for presentation of information in visual [1] or tactile form (the latter used for example in tactile electronic displays for blind people). [2]

  3. Glossary of computer hardware terms - Wikipedia

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    A microprocessor, ASIC, or expansion card designed to offload a specific task from the CPU, often containing fixed-function hardware. A common example is a graphics processing unit. accumulator A register that holds the result of previous operation in ALU. It can be also used as an input register to the adder. address

  4. Computer monitor - Wikipedia

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    A flat-panel display (FPD) computer monitor A cathode-ray tube (CRT) computer monitor. A computer monitor is an output device that displays information in pictorial or textual form. A discrete monitor comprises a visual display, support electronics, power supply, housing, electrical connectors, and external user controls.

  5. Resident monitor - Wikipedia

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    In computing, a resident monitor is a type of system software program that was used in many early computers from the 1950s to 1970s. It can be considered a precursor to the operating system . [ 1 ] The name is derived from a program which is always present in the computer's memory, thus being resident . [ 2 ]

  6. Flat-panel display - Wikipedia

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    The publication of their findings gave all the basics of future flat-panel TVs and monitors. But GE did not continue with the R&D required and never built a working flat panel at that time. [ 1 ] The first production flat-panel display was the Aiken tube , developed in the early 1950s and produced in limited numbers in 1958.

  7. Display resolution - Wikipedia

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    1080p progressive scan HDTV, which uses a 16:9 ratio. Some commentators also use display resolution to indicate a range of input formats that the display's input electronics will accept and often include formats greater than the screen's native grid size even though they have to be down-scaled to match the screen's parameters (e.g. accepting a 1920 × 1080 input on a display with a native 1366 ...

  8. Video display controller - Wikipedia

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    Block diagram of a NEC μPD7220 graphics display controller. A video display controller (VDC), also called a display engine or display interface, is an integrated circuit which is the main component in a video-signal generator, a device responsible for the production of a TV video signal in a computing or game system.

  9. Broadcast reference monitor - Wikipedia

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    Rack-mounted video monitors as used in television broadcasting. A video reference monitor, also called a broadcast reference monitor or just reference monitor, is a specialized display device similar to a television set, used to monitor the output of a video-generating device, such as playout from a video server, IRD, video camera, VCR, or DVD player.