A device used to integrate other, often peripheral, devices the computers main circuitry, particularly the motherboard. For example, a controller for a hard disk. A PC computer that complies to the computing technology and standards laid down for PCs, which was originally defined by IBM in its first PCs in 1981. A compiler is a program which translates a completed program into machine code which can then be executed by the computer without further translation. An interpreter based program, on the other hand, translates a program line by line so that the computer can only execute the code line by line.
Compiled programs run much faster than interpreted ones.
Transmission protocol used in Ethernet networks. If a collision occurs between data packets, the packets are retransmitted after a random time period. CTI Computer Telephony Integration. 170 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia.