Here's a selected glossary:
* Windows 95 - The culmination of an 11-year effort by the PC industry to
clone the Macintosh.
* 32-bit - The approximate amount of space remaining on a 100M-byte hard
disk after Windows 95 is installed.
* Eight.three - File-naming convention on MS-DOS, replaced by Windows 95
feature that allows files to have easy-to-remember names like
Letter_to_mom_about_why_I_cannot_come_over_Sunday_for_dinner.
* Multitasking - The ability to run multiple programs at once, making it
much easier to pinpoint which one just crashed your system.
* Start button - The Windows 95 version of C:\>
* Network Neighborhood - Windows 95's term for the collection of computers
in your office that can now more easily create and exchange multiple,
differing versions of the same data.
* "My Computer" - What your PC was before you connected it to the Network
Neighborhood.
* Upgrade - Software industry term for the process of selling a user the
same word processor for the fifth time.
* Windows NT - Microsoft code name for Windows 97
* Maintenance release - Computer industry term for software released about
six months after shipment of the original product that does what the
original product was supposed to do.
* Single Inline Memory Module (SIMM) - Spider-like computer chip used to
add RAM to a computer. Become familiar with SIMMs. You will buy them by the
bucket.
* The Microsoft Network (MSN) - On-Line service owned by Window's 95
developer and offered automatically to every Windows 95 user and which is
in no way monopolistic or has any unfair advantage over any other on-line
service by virtue of being right on your screen all the time. Honest.
From: Paul Gillin, Editor - ComputerWorld
paul_gillin@cw.com
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