Toshiba x200 사용자 설명서

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S
select — To highlight or otherwise specify text, data, or graphics with the 
intent to perform some operation on it.
serial — Processes that occur one at a time. In communications, it means 
the transmission of one bit at a time sequentially over a single 
channel. On your computer, the serial port provides a serial interface 
between the computer and an appropriate device. Compare parallel.
shortcut — See keyboard shortcut.
Sleep — A feature of some Windows
®
 operating systems that allows you 
to turn off the computer without exiting your open applications and 
to continue from where you left off when you turn the computer on 
again.
software — See program. Compare hardware.
Suspend — A feature of some Windows
®
 operating systems that allows 
you to turn off the computer without exiting your open applications 
and to continue from where you left off when you turn the computer 
on again.
system disk — A diskette that contains the operating system files needed 
to start the computer. Any diskette can be formatted as a system 
disk. A system disk is also called a “bootable disk” or a “startup 
disk.” Compare non-system disk.
system prompt — The symbol (in the MS-DOS
®
 operating system, 
generally a drive letter followed by a “greater than” sign) indicating 
where users are to enter commands.
T
TFT display — See active-matrix display.
U
universal serial bus (USB) — USB is a serial bus that supports a data 
transfer rate of up to 480 Mbps (480 million bits per second). USB 
can connect up to 127 peripheral devices through a single all-
purpose USB port. USB allows hot swapping of peripherals. See 
also bus, hot swapping, serial.
upload — To send a file to another computer through a modem or 
network. See also download.
USB
 — See universal serial bus (USB).
utility — A computer program designed to perform a narrowly focused 
operation or solve a specific problem. Utilities are often related to 
computer system management.