| Name |
Description |
| Mbps |
(MegaBits Per Second) A measure of speed of information flow over a network. (And if it's measured in Mbps, it's pretty darn quick!) A Megabit is one million bits. |
| Mbps |
MegaBits Per Second is a measure of speed of information flow over a network. |
| Megabyte |
Unit of measurement for pieces of information : approximately 1 million bytes, or 1000 kilobytes (actually 1024). Often shortened to Meg or just M. |
| Megabyte |
1024 Kilobytes |
| Memory |
Where the computer holds whatever you are currently working on. |
| MHz |
(Megahertz - millions of cycles per second). Most often used as a measurement of a PC processor chip's speed and power, with bigger numbers meaning more speed and a higher price. |
| MHz |
Most often used as a measurement of a PC processor chip's speed and power, bigger numbers mean more speed and a higher price. |
| Micro |
(Microcomputer) When desktop computers first appeared in the 1970's, they were often called microcomputers, later shortened to micro, to distinguish them from the so-called minicomputers of the day, which far from sitting on a desk were a good deal bigger than it! There was also a popular home computer called the BBC Micro, now obsolete. |
| Micro |
Microcomputers, the phaze we are in right now, computers are much smaller than before. |
| Microsoft |
A company which sells everything for the computer. They basically have a monopoly in OS, Office and development platforms. |
| MIDI |
(Musical Instrument Digital Interface; pr. "middy") A very popular standard for controlling musical instruments connected to computers. Many soundcards have a built-in synthesizer which can play back MIDI files, though if it's a cheap one they probably won't sound very good. A MIDI file is a set of instructions to play particular notes at particular intervals in particular styles, not a recording. |
| Modem |
Hardware you connect to your computer and to a phone line, that allows the computer to talk to other computers through the phone system. Basically, modems do for computers what a telephone does for people. |
| Monitor |
The screen of a PC. |
| Monitor |
Screen for the PC. |
| Motherboard |
The main circuitboard in the computer - all the other bits and pieces are plugged into it. |
| Motherboard |
The primary system board connecting the computer’s input and output components, memory and power to the central processing unit. The motherboard of a PC holds the CPU, memory, and adapter cards. |
| Motherboard |
Connects all the different parts of a computer together. |
| MXT |
A new chip, actually two chips, developed by IBM for Intel-based servers. The technology uses two chips (a macro and memory controller and an L3 cache chip) to capture, code, and compress data traveling from the processor to the RAM. |
| MXT |
Memory eXpansion Technology |
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