Baud - A measure of a modem's speed. Boot - To initiate an automatic routine that clears the memory, loads the operating system, and prepares the computer for use. Unlike RAM, program instructs the computer's disk drives to search for the computer's operating system. After a system crash occurs, you usually must reboot the computer. With most systems, you can perform a warm boot that restarts the system without the stress electronic components caused by switching the power off and on again.
Macintoshes have a restart button on the keyboard.
Browser - An Internet search tool, such as Mosaic or Lynx. CD-ROM disks can store up to 650 of data, all of which can be made available interactively on the computer's display. CD-ROM currently is used to produce encyclopedias, dictionaries, and software libraries available to personal computer users. New compression techniques enable you to pack up to 250,000 text pages on one CD-ROM disk. Computers represent and manipulate text, graphics, symbols and music, as well as numbers.