Short for potentiometer. These are the little round knobs that you turn left and right. A drive monitoring technology created by IBM to increase reliability of hard drives. PFA monitors key device performance indicators for change over time or for exceeding specified limits. The device notifies the system when an indicator surpasses a pre-determined threshold.
Computers typically boot off hard drives connected to the primary bus.
Basic geometry such as a sphere, cone, or cube that you use to modify and build larger, more complex objects. Primitives help speed the modeling process because it saves you from having to build a lot of shapes from scratch, especially common shapes that will repeatedly occur in your work. Programs written in procedural languages tend to be monolithic, while OOP encourages the division of a program into independent modules that are reusable in future programs. A type of subroutine that generally does not return a value when called. A procedure named SaveFile might save a file on disk, then return control to the calling program or routine without returning a value.