An adapter in regard to computing can be either a hardware component (device) or software that allows two or more incompatible devices to be linked together...
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Graphics card (redirect from Display adapter)
card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially GPU) is a computer expansion card...
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In computer hardware a host controller, host adapter or host bus adapter (HBA) connects a computer system bus which acts as the host system to other network...
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The Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA, also MDA card, Monochrome Display and Printer Adapter, MDPA) is IBM's standard video display card and computer display...
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stages Adapter (computing), used to connect various hardware devices Adapter (piping), a short length of pipe with two different ends Adapter pattern...
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Dongle (redirect from Dongle adapter)
communication, and in modern computing, USB-C to other types of ports, and Mobile High-Definition Link), USB wireless adapters for standards such as Bluetooth...
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Network interface controller (redirect from LAN adapter)
controller (NIC, also known as a network interface card, network adapter, LAN adapter and physical network interface) is a computer hardware component...
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The Color Graphics Adapter (CGA), originally also called the Color/Graphics Adapter or IBM Color/Graphics Monitor Adapter, introduced in 1981, was IBM's...
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host bus adapter Parallel port controller Microcontroller unit (MCU) Keyboard controller Programmable Interrupt Controller Northbridge (computing) Southbridge...
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Game port (redirect from Game Control Adapter)
(15 August 2008). "Eight ways the iMac changed computing". Macworld. Grendel. "3DP-Vert, a USB adapter for the Microsoft SideWinder 3D Pro, Precision...
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and 1020 Converged Network Adapters (CNAs)". Brocade website. Retrieved May 22, 2013. Frank Berry Blog on Network Computing: Broadcom unveils CNA, 29 January...
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InfiniBand (redirect from Host Channel Adapter)
channel adapter. Each processor contains a host channel adapter (HCA) and each peripheral has a target channel adapter (TCA). These adapters can also...
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events in the history of computing from 1990 to 1999. For narratives explaining the overall developments, see the history of computing. "Vision for the Future"...
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In computing, an event is a detectable occurrence or change in the system's state, such as user input, hardware interrupts, system notifications, or changes...
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Native describes a computing system as operating directly with an underlying technology; with no intervening communication or translation layers. Native...
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Other World Computing (OWC), founded in 1988, is an American computer hardware and software company, with an online store for upgrading Mac, Windows and...
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This is a list of computing and IT acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations. 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also References...
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Personal computer (redirect from Personal computing)
Yugoslavia's Home-Brewed Microcomputer". IEEE Spectrum. 60 (8): 16–18. "Computing Japan". Computing Japan. 54–59: 18. 1999. Archived from the original on 17 January...
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Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is a data center server computer product line composed of server hardware, virtualization support, switching fabric...
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Expansion card (redirect from Adapter card)
In computing, an expansion card (also called an expansion board, adapter card, peripheral card or accessory card) is a printed circuit board that can...
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Emulator (redirect from Emulator adapter)
In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the...
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SCSI bus. These integrated peripheral controllers communicate with a host adapter in the host system over a standardized, high-level storage bus interface...
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Model–view–adapter (MVA) or mediating-controller MVC is a software architectural pattern and multitier architecture. In complex computer applications...
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– internal – integrated/adapter or modular PERC H700 – internal – integrated/adapter or modular PERC H800 – external – adapter These are compatible with...
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Peripheral (redirect from Computing product)
drive, memory card and tape drive), modem, router, gateway and network adapter Many modern electronic devices, such as Internet-enabled digital watches...
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BBC Micro expansion unit (section Teletext adapter)
(January 1987). "Up, Up & Upgrade?". A&B Computing. pp. 12–16. Grace, Clive (July 1985). "Flexible Options". A&B Computing. pp. 109–112. Retrieved 3 December...
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Hercules Graphics Card (redirect from Monochrome Graphics Adapter)
graphics cards available: the Color Graphics Adapter (CGA) and the Monochrome Display And Printer Adapter (MDA). CGA offered low-resolution (320 × 200)...
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List of open-source hardware projects (redirect from Open-source computing platform)
Twibrigh RONJA — a 10 Mbit/s full duplex FSO wireless optical network adapter from 2001 System76 Thelio Io — System76 Thelio desktops use an open-source...
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Blade server (redirect from Computing blade)
interface controllers for Ethernet or host adapters for Fibre Channel storage systems or converged network adapter to combine storage and data via one Fibre...
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Mellanox offered adapters, switches, software, cables and silicon for markets including high-performance computing, data centers, cloud computing, computer data...
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