Science and Technology Section 3
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An Extended Capabilities Port is about 10 times faster than the old standard one, but it is used the same way a regular parallel port is.
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A protocol developed by Netscape to allow secure connections over the net.
URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. It is an address for a specific document found on the Web.
The Intel 8080 was a jazzed-up calculator chip. It was included in microcomputer kits which were little more than demonstration tools and did little except blink lights. Besides the 8080 chip, the Altair included a power supply, a front panel with a large number of lights and 256 bytes (not kilobytes) of memory. The kit sold for {$395} and had to be assembled.
A NIC is a Network Interface Card. Usually a card that is plugged into a computer's expansion slot.
As surprising as its age is, the Internet was born from the U.S. military's need to construct a decentralized computer network that could withstand a nuclear war. The network was used and refined by universities throughout the 1970s and 1980s, but it wasn't until 1992 that the Internet was made available to the general public.
Reduced Instruction Set Computer - a type of microprocessor that relies on simple instructions which can be used to build more complicated ones.
ICMP Packets are used to send control messages including errors.
A new type of disc developed by Constellation 3D Inc. These discs can hold up to to 140 GB of data.