The Prentice-Hall Standard Glossary of Computer Terminology

Abbreviation Address application arithmetic auxiliary storage base management system bytes cathode ray tube central processing unit Check Code communications channel Compiler components computer system computer's main storage computer's operating system contains Contrast Cycle data base management data items data processing Data Structure Data Transmission designed disk drives display document electronic Error example executed Floating-Point format functions handle hardware identify information processing Input/Output Instruction Integrated Circuit interface involved job control language keyboard logical operations Machine magnetic tape manufacturer mathematical Memory microcomputers Modulation Multiplexor normally Numbering System on-line operating system Optical organization output performed peripheral devices permits physical Plotter Printer procedures processing unit CPU Processor program statement programming language punched cards radix radix point read-only memory records Register Sequential signals specific storage device storage location storage medium stored subroutine switching symbols Synonymous with Data technique term terminal Test Transfer transmitted usually