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Hosting Terms
Karnaugh Mapping
A means of showing the relationship between logic inputs and desired output.
Generally a truth table is mapped to a smaller, more workable grid of output.
Katmai New Instructions
This is the original code-name for Intel's SSE instruction set, named after
the first Pentium III processor core, code-named "Katmai.".
KBps
kilobytes per second
KDE
The KDE project was started in 1996 by Matthias Ettrich as a way to bring a
more user-friendly GUI experience to UNIX users.
Kermit
A common terminal emulation program and file transfer protocol that can be
used across dialup and telnet connections. It is much slower than xmodem and
ymodem.
Kernel
The guts of any operating system. The kernel is loaded into main memory and
stays there.
Keyboard
The main input device on most PCs. It consists of a "board" with a set of
buttons on it that represent all the letters in the alphabet.
Keyword
A term most often used to describe content on a Web page so that search
engines can properly index the page. Keywords are not used any longer by most
search engines.
Kilobit
1024 bits (2^10 bits).
Kilobits Per Second
A measure of data transfer. A 56Kbps dial-up modem transfers data at about
7.2 kilobytes (KB) per second, or about 432 KB per minute.
Kilobyte
1024 bytes (2^10 bytes).
KNI
This is the original code-name for Intel's SSE instruction set, named after
the first Pentium III processor core, code-named "Katmai."
KVM switch
A switch that connects two or more computers to the same keyboard, mouse,
and monitor. The KVM switch fools each computer into thinking that it is
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