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Computer Knowledge information pages for terms starting with the letter F.

FAHQT - Fully Automatic High-Quality Translation

(faah-quit) The is the holy grail of machine translation: a completely automatic high-quality translation of a foreign text into the target language. For most of the history of machine translation the software developments concentrated on syntax rule...

FAMOS - Floating Gate Avalanche MOS

(famous) A type of transistor that forms the basis of many EPROM chips. More Information EPROM Intro ...

FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

(fak) A list of questions typically asked in a newsgroup along with the correct answers. It's good netiquette to check the FAQ for a newsgroup before asking general questions in the group. This helps the group and you as answers in the FAQ have gener...

FAT - File Allocation Table

(fat) A system used to catalog the location of all portions of files on a disk. Files are rarely stored in contiguous locations on a disk so the FAT keeps track of the various segments. In each disk partition (normally seen as a drive letter) are clu...

FBGA - Fine-pitch Ball-grid Array

(F-B-G-A) A type of flash memory chip packaging. More Information Low Profile FBGA Description ...

FCB - File Control Block

(F-C-B) An operating system data structure used to store information about an open file. The operating system controls how many files it can have open at the same time by the number of FCBs it can handle. More Information CP/M File Control Block Info...

FCC - File Carbon Copy

(F-C-C) The folder Pine uses to keep a copy of outgoing messages. More Information Pine Configuration Info Pine Configuration ...

FDD - Floppy Disk Drive

(F-D-D) A drive that can read and/or write to floppy disks. Used originally for disks that would actually flip/flop when held by the side and waved (8- and 5.25-inch disks), FDD was extended to the hard-shelled 3.5-inch disks when they became popular...

FDDI - Fiber Distributed Data Interface

(F-D-D-I) A network specification used for high-speed (100Mbps) fiber optic networks with a dual-attached, counter-rotating token ring topology. The "dual-attached" term is used because the center of an FDDI network generally consists of routers and ...

FDHD - Floppy Drive, High Density

(fud-hud) 3½-inch Macintosh disk drives that accept double-density or high-density 3½-inch floppy disks. These disks can contain either Macintosh or DOS-formatted files. Superdrive is a term frequently used for these drives. (Don't confuse "Superdr...

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