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Bandwidth
The amount of data that can be transferrer at a time.
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Barton
Code name for the successor to the Athlon. Barton will be 32-bit and use SOI with a .13 micron process. Expected release is in the 2nd half of 2002.
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Benchmarks
A set of conditions or criteria against which a product or system is measured.
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BGA
Ball Grid Array, the method chipsets are attached to motherboards, using solder balls
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Bios
Basic Input/Output System.Software that determines what a computer can do without accessing programs. Your BIOS has the information to control the keyboard, screen, drives, serial communications, and other functions. BIOS is typically built into a ROM chip installed on the motherboard.
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broadband
High speed internet access via cable lines or ADSL phone lines.
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BSOD
Blue Screen of Death, when the Windows OS continually blue screens and you cannot do anything to fix this.
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Burn
To record information onto a writable optical medium such as a CD-R.
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Burn in
A given period of time in which a system is fully stressed to make sure there are no faults.
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Bus Mastering
Allows for peripherals to directly communicate to each other without the help of the CPU. This often results in higher performance as well as less CPU utilization.
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