- 行业: Computer
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- Company Profile:
An American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing.
A volume that contains an operating system (for example, Windows Vista) that can be loaded by Windows Boot Manager. A given system can have multiple operating system volumes. The operating system on the current volume can be started only if it has an entry in the Boot Configuration Data (BCD).
Industry:Software
A portion of a hard disk partition that contains information about the disk's file system and a short machine language program that loads the Windows operating system.
Industry:Software
A computer built around a single-chip microprocessor. Less powerful than minicomputers and mainframes, microcomputers have nevertheless evolved into very powerful machines capable of complex tasks. Technology has progressed so quickly that state-of-the-art microcomputers--essentially, in today's terms, a desktop PC--are as powerful as mainframe computers of only a few years ago, at a fraction of the cost.
Industry:Software
A request or request-response pairing on a port that is associated with either a send or receive action.
Industry:Software
