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| | Safety and the Human-Computer Interface |
 | | The safe design of the human-computer interface and cockpit procedures is dependent on appropriate design of the software, and appropriate design of the software can only be assured in the context of the operator tasks and cognitive abilities. | | | Advanced automation systems, where computers implement control actions of their own, add new types of mode-related problems because the system status and mode (and thus behavior) can change independent of direct and immediate operator commands. | | | Many systems today provide either shared control between the computer and the operator, or total computer control with the operator controlling or monitoring the computer (rather than the process itself). |
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http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/hci
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| | dpmiuser.doc1 |
| | Protected Mode and Memory ------------------------- A DOS protected-mode program uses DPMI (DOS Protected Mode Interface) to run in protected mode which gives the application access to all your computer's memory. | | | Running from a Windows DOS Prompt --------------------------------- To run a DOS protected-mode application from a Windows DOS prompt, you must first modify the DOSPRMPT.PIF file found in your Windows directory so that the protected-mode program will be able to use extended memory. | | | If you have a computer with an older 80286 microprocessor, your system might not be recognized. |
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http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~powell/pc_docs/pcgpe/dpmiuser.doc1
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| | Define protected mode - a definition from Whatis.com |
| | Protected mode is a mode of program operation in a computer with an Intel-based microprocessor in which the program is restricted to addressing a specific contiguous area of 640 kilobytes. | | | Microsoft developed the DOS Protected Mode Interface to go with a DOS extender included with Windows 3.0 (which was itself a DOS application). | | | Typically, a program running in real mode is one that needs to get to and use or update system data and can be trusted to know how to do this. |
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http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci212838,00.html
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| | DOS - Internetnews.com - Webopedia.com |
| | For some time, it has been widely acknowledged that DOS is insufficient for modern computer applications. | | | This is a programmer's reference copy of the DOS Protected Mode Interface, a protected mode API specification for DOS extended applications. | | | However, DOS is still a 16-bit operating system and does not support multiple users or multitasking. |
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http://inews.webopedia.com/SHARED/search_action.asp?Term=DoS&...
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| | @Macarlo, Inc. Internet Services |
| | For the advanced user, PKZIP 2.50 for DOS will use DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) in Windows 95/98, OS/2 and other DPMI supported environments to run 32-bit code for better and faster compression performance. | | | Detect the exact type of CPU and EMS/XMS memory your computer is using. | | | You are no longer limited to DOS 8.3 file names when running PKZIP in a Windows 95 or Windows 98 command line environment. |
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http://macarlo.com/pkzip250.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Books: The i-mode Wireless Ecosystem |
| | SIPs: ringtone melodies, mode ecosystem, home game machine, content platform, infrared interface (more) | | | Following on from his earlier book, i-mode Strategy, Takeshi Natsunodiscusses the type of markets i-mode has created and NTTDoCoMo¿s vision for its future development as i-mode expands overseas. | | | Ever since its introduction in February 1999 i-mode has been the most successful mobile internet technology of the World. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0470859083?v=glance
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| | Real mode - TheBestLinks.com - BIOS, CPU, Computer multitasking, DOS, ... |
| | Real mode, BIOS, CPU, Computer multitasking, DOS, Graphical user interface... | | | Real mode - TheBestLinks.com - BIOS, CPU, Computer multitasking, DOS,... | | | Real mode is characterized by a 16 bit segmented memory address space (meaning that only 1 MB of memory can be addressed), direct software access to BIOS routines and peripheral hardware, and no concept of memory protection or multitasking at the hardware level. |
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http://www.thebestlinks.com/Real_mode.html
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| | Weblogs Forum - The Humane Interface |
| | Jef makes a point against interface customization which I have long observed: customizations act as long-living modes, and can cause great pain and confusion when you find yourself using a familiar application on someone else's computer, or even on your own computer when you have changed a preference that has a farther-reaching effect than expected. | | | My experience with computer interfaces -- ranging from MacOS 7-9 and MacOS X through Windows 3.11, Windows 95 and Windows XP to Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD -- and with users using those environments, leads me to the conclusion that intuitive/simple-to-understand interfaces are important for the majority of computer users. | | | Since humans are creatures of habit, we have a hard time remembering which mode the computer is, because we want to focus on the task at hand; modes divert our attention to keeping track of the mode, and hence slow us down. |
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http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=106&thread=4790
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| | Text Mode User Interfaces |
| | Depending on the hardware of the computer, the text interface may have special text characters. | | | This type of environment is known as a "command line interface". | | | The problem with this kind of interface is that there are often thousands of commands, each with different options or parameters that must be specified as part of the command. |
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http://toastytech.com/guis/text.html
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| | protected mode - a Whatis.com definition |
| | Protected mode is a mode of program operation in a computer with an Intel-based microprocessor in which the program is restricted to addressing a specific contiguous area of 640 kilobytes. | | | Microsoft developed the DOS Protected Mode Interface to go with a DOS extender included with Windows 3.0 (which was itself a DOS application). | | | Typically, a program running in real mode is one that needs to get to and use or update system data and can be trusted to know how to do this. |
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http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci212838,00.html
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| | Graphical user interface - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | Designing suitable interfaces for handheld devices, such as PDA applications and their smartphone cousins, has been a major challenge for user interface designers, and some of the more successful diverge considerably from desktop computer designs. | | | A graphical user interface (or GUI, pronounced "gooey") is a method of interacting with a computer through a metaphor of direct manipulation of graphical images and widgets in addition to text. | | | The GUI is generally contrasted with the command line interface (CLI), an earlier, text-only interface that required the user to type in commands or text strings to cause the computer to take some action. |
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http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/graphical_user_interface.htm
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| | Graphical user interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | smartphone cousins, has been a major challenge for user interface designers, and some of the more successful diverge considerably from desktop computer designs. | | | The GUI is generally contrasted with the command line interface (CLI), an earlier, text-only interface that required the user to type in commands or text strings to cause the computer to take some action. | | | text user interfaces (TUIs) that display the same types of widgets as a GUI but in a character-cell text mode rather than in a pixel-based graphics mode. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface
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| | High-Tech Dictionary File Types |
| | A file that allows Windows to display text and graphics in standard mode on a 286 or 386 computer (filename extension). | | | A file that makes it possible for HTTP servers to interface with computer programs to provide interactive functions like fill-out forms. | | | A file that allows Windows to display text and graphics in enhanced mode on a 386, 486, or Pentium computer (filename extension). |
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http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/filetypes.html
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| | Windows 2000 Safe-Mode Boot and Recovery Console |
| | Unlike safe mode, Recovery Console does not have a user interface and is completely command-line driven. | | | It is also self-contained and does not rely on information contained in the failed computer to allow you to start the computer and perform repairs. | | | Recovery Console (also referred to as "Command Console" or "Repair Console") is another tool that you can use to recover or diagnose a computer that does not start. |
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http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/administration/management/safemode.asp
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| | Text mode - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Many modern programs with a graphical interface simulate the display style of text mode programs, notably when it is important to preserve the vertical alignment of text, e.g., during computer programming. There exist also software components to emulate text mode, such as terminal emulators or Win32 consoles. | | | Text mode demos — computer animations generated in text mode | | | A text mode program communicates with the user by only displaying text and possibly a limited set of predefined semi-graphical characters, which allow the drawing of rudimentary boxes around portions of text, either to highlight the content or to simulate widget or control interface objects found in GUI programs. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_mode
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| | Mainboard Sp2000 has capability upgrade model of computer through the program (for update the information in Altera by run program on computer of end-user) without replacement board. | | | If you want to buy the computer Sprinter. | | | Sprinter use Kempston joystick and Kempston mouse in Spectrum mode, and MS mouse in any mode. |
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http://virtuals.atlant.ru/peters/e-faq.htm
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Multitasking |
| | Multitasking, in computer science, a mode of operation offered by an operating system in which a computer works on more than one task at a time.... | | | Windows (operating system), in computer science, common or “street” name for Microsoft Windows, a multitasking graphical user interface environment that... | | | OS/2, in computer science, a multitaskingoperating system for personal computers based on the Intel x86 line of microprocessors. |
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http://uk.encarta.msn.com/Multitasking.html
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| | Computer Associates Security Advisor Center Glossary |
| | Joke programs are usually seen as programs that do no real damage but in some way attempt to raise the program user's concern for the contents of their computer. | | | Specialized hardware that standard BIOSes were not written to recognize and handle had to either include a BIOS extension on its adaptor card or provide device drivers allowing access to the device (or both) if they were to be used other than by proprietary software written to their hardware interface. | | | Many programs that are clearly designed to harass, annoy and spy on unsuspecting users who are fooled into running their server part (that is, programs that better fit the first expansion of this acronym) are referred to as 'remote administration tools' in an attempt (usually by their writers, resellers, agents, etc) to legitimize them. |
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http://www3.ca.com/virus/glossary.asp
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| | CGM, Graphcap, and Fontcap Supplement |
| | The CGM is a standard that defines a set of basic elements for a computer graphics interface. | | | Graphics mode is the state where graphics instructions are received and understood; text mode is used for normal communications and editing. | | | Metafiles have two primary values in a complex computing environment: 1.) simplification, and 2.) archivability and transportability. |
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http://ngwww.ucar.edu/ngdoc/ng4.3/supplements/cgm_supp/cgm_supp.html
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| | Hang When Ejecting Audio CD with Panasonic CR-562B Drive |
| | The Panasonic CR-562B CD-ROM drive is not completely compatible with the Windows 95 protected-mode disk drivers. | | | To work around this problem, load the real-mode drivers for the CD-ROM drive in the Config.sys and Autoexec.bat files. | | | If you eject an audio CD from a Panasonic CR-562B CD-ROM drive while it is playing, your computer may stop responding (hang). |
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http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q136/9/55.asp
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| | PRIM from FOLDOC |
| | Previous: primary cache, primary key, Primary Rate Interface, Prime Computer, Primenet, Inc. | | | Next: Primary Rate Interface, Prime Computer, Primenet, Inc. | | | Next: primary key, Primary Rate Interface, Prime Computer, Primenet, Inc. |
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http://www.instantweb.com/d/dictionary/foldoc.cgi?query=PRIM
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| | Mars: Viking Computer Facility; Mars Meteorology and Mission Operations |
| | Tillman and his UW staff developed a computer facility, the Viking Computer Facility, to operate the Viking Meteorology Instrument System, VMIS, with the same interface as Viking Landers Guidance and Sequencing Computer, GCSC, and gather wind tunnel data. | | | After development for VMIS system testing, the computer system was upgraded to a Prime 400, the first, very large scale, low cost computer system with program size capabilities greater than most mainframes at that time. | | | This computer facility is still operational and maintained by Jim Tillman and Harry Edmon and is being used to process, analyze and display Viking meteorological, engineering and other and spacecraft data. |
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http://www.atmos.washington.edu/local-httpdocs/mars-meteorology.html
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| | CONTENTS |
| | This discussion of programs that operate interfaces is relevant to human-machine interface design because you might want to construct a set of stored commands that can be played back with a single gesture, a macro, which is a rudimentary form of computer program. | | | If the current state of the interface is not the user's locus of attention and if an interface has modes, the user will sometimes make errors because his locus of attention is not the current mode. | | | The ideal humane interface would reduce the interface component of a user's work to benign habituation. |
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http://www.stormpages.com/futureintent/Humane.htm
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| | C++ IDE |
| | The third component of the computer programming curriculum teaches you how to employ the C and C++ (pronounced "C plus plus") languages to construct both console-mode (i.e., textual) and true Windows programs (i.e., offering a graphical user interface). | | | However this language runs too slowly to be appropriate for computer games, which is one reason many people are interested in learning about computer programming. | | | Assembly language is taught in the second component of this Computer Science Lab curriculum (all 3 components are distributed on the same CD-ROM). |
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http://www.computersciencelab.com/CppIde.htm
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| | What's a Terminal? |
| | This is an advantage because (a) plain text is stable and universal, whereas "rich text" formats and graphical user interfaces are many, varied, mutually incompatible, and in a constant state of flux; and (b) text-mode interfaces are easier to use than graphical ones (perhaps harder to learn, but less labor-intensive to use once learned). | | | Video terminals, also known as CRTs (Cathode Ray Tubes), appeared on the scene in the mid-1960s and dominated the human-computer interface from the early 1970s (when they began to displace hardcopy terminals) until the mid-1980s, when PCs began to take over. | | | A terminal emulator is a software program on a personal computer that does what these terminals -- and others like them (but different) -- do. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/terminals.html
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| | Promiscuous Mode Madge Token Ring NIC Can Halt Mainframe Connection |
| | The computer (running either Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 95) on which Netmon is running has a Madge PCI Ringnode Token Ring network interface card (NIC) with Mdgmport.sys of version 5.02. | | | When Microsoft Systems Management Server Network Monitor (Netmon) is running on a token ring segment, mainframe clients on that segment may no longer be able to access or connect to a mainframe host computer. | | | When this adapter is set in Promiscuous mode (required for Netmon to monitor all network traffic), the driver will actually de-insert LLC XID frames from the ring. |
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http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q200/3/39.asp
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| | drivers_usb_input.html |
| | Say Y here if you want full HID support to connect keyboards, mice, joysticks, graphic tablets, or any other HID based devices to your computer via USB. | | | Say Y here only if you are absolutely sure that you don't want to use the generic HID driver for your USB mouse and prefer to use the mouse in its limited Boot Protocol mode instead. | | | Say Y here only if you are absolutely sure that you don't want to use the generic HID driver for your USB keyboard and prefer to use the keyboard in its limited Boot Protocol mode instead. |
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http://tlug.up.ac.za/old/guides/lkcg/drivers_usb_input.html
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| | [PCdrivers.com] Network Adapters(1) |
| | The DFE-550TX provides an industry standard interface for a desktop computer to access an Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, or Dual Speed Network. | | | Adapter will work in Pn'P or Non-Pn'P computers. | | | The DFE-530TX uses the bus master burst mode to directly transfer network data between the card and the host's memory, bypassing the host's CPU to offload the host's work load. |
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| | Simmtronics is the Registered Trade Mark of Memory Component Corporation |
| | Made for computers with a faster CPU, EDO memory is 10-15% faster than similar fast-page mode chips. | | | The number of pulses emitted from a computer's clock in one second; it determines the rate at which logical or arithmetic gating is performed in a synchronous computer. | | | The module plugs into a SIMM socket on the main or expansion board of your computer or printer. |
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| | Atari 8-Bit Computers: Frequently Asked Questions |
| | Articles and software at http://www.geocities.com/atarimods/atari.html (Atari page by Clarence Dyson) ==> KMK/JZ IDE Hard Drive Interface 1.0 (1996) By Konrad M.Kokoszkiewicz (Draco) and Jacek Zuk KMK writes (March 2005): This is sort of cartridge fitting in ECI+CARTRIDGE slot in XE computers. | | | One "master" computer (any 8-bit) is equipped with the master Multiplexer interface. | | | This means, one can use the software with both Midi-interfaces or use the interfaces with the software of both vendors... |
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http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/atari-8-bit/faq.html
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