Apple Macintosh Encyclopedia by Gary Phillips

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The Apple Macintosh Encyclopedia presents simply obtainable, short and comprehensible details at the subject matters that you're probably to have questions on. we now have rigorously digested the manuals, books, journal articles, and different details assets for the Macintosh. those, mixed with our personal event in utilizing the Macintosh and different own pcs, were built-in into an alphabetical series of brief entries within the type of an encyclopedia. The target is to supply concise, priceless and easy-to-understand details on a selected subject that's speedy available if you happen to desire it. a lot of the knowledge within the entries isn't inside the manuals supplied with the Macintosh and numerous software program items. for instance, discover the dialogue, lower than WIDTH, of the "deferred" nature of this command while used with a tool identify, the dialogue of the colon (:) in Multiplan for levels, or Saving, issues of. those subject matters are passed over or inadequately coated within the average manuals. The Macintosh is the 1st really visible desktop. in response to the hugely visible nature of utilizing the Macintosh, we have now supplied over a hundred illustrations. every one exhibits precisely what you'll discover at the reveal while exploring issues mentioned within the textual content. The Macintosh Encyclopedia opens with a visible advisor to icons, and continues to be hugely visible in orientation in the course of the text.

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In hardware, a device which restores logic-drive signal levels in order to drive a bus or a large number of inputs. Buffering The delaying and temporary storage of data in a data communications path. Bug Errors in a Program. A programmer must ensure that a program will correctly process all of the types of data it is intended for. Samples of the data are prepared (test data) and the program is executed using this data (a test run). ) are then verified to be as specified. " Bulk Storage Large capacity data storage, generally long term.

INKEY$ Integer - convert to by rounding - CINT«x» Keyboard - read characters - INKEY$ Keyboard - read data from I NPUT[;][ <" prompt" >; j[, j and LINE INPUT#, Left justify a string - LSET = Large programs - use of overlays - CHAINMERGEj Length of file - LOC«filenum» and LOF«filenum» Length of string - LEN«x$» Line numbers - generate automatically AUTO[ [, jl Line numbers - renumberRENUM [[ ][, [][ , III Line number where error occured - ERL Location of cursor - find - POS«m) Loop - FOR and NEXT statements and WHILE and WEND statements Machine language program (subroutine) CALL [, «variable>",) j Memory address of variable - VARPTR«variable» Memory - amount free - FRE«m) Memory - change - POKE Memory - read byte - PEEK«m) Natural logorithm - LOG( Position of carriage - printer - LPOS«m) Print Microsoft BASIC program listing on printerLLI ST[ [ -[ III Print on printer - LPRINT[l Printer - carriage position - LPOS«m) Program, Microsoft BASIC - run or execute - RUN and LOAD Random number - RND[(; j 28 • BASIC, Statements for Microsoft BASIC Read data from fi Ie GET[ # ]Lmumber>] (READ reads from DATA statements and INPUT# and LINE INPUT#) Repeat a character TO [STEP ] Repeat program lines - FOR Screen, clear - CLS Screen, graphics - PUT«x1,y1»[-«x2,y2»], L 40 or 80 Search string for character or shorter string INSTR([m>, ] String - length of - LEN«x$» String - numeric value of - VAL«x$» String - right justify - LSET Subroutine - GOSUB dine> Subroutine - machine language CALL [ «variable> ...

Key will cancel the operation of a file command or a print command at the point where these two keys are pressed. These are both useful shortcuts when you are involved in the operations described and wish to interrupt or stop the operation. , Command Window. Candy Apple IEEE 488* A user interface used to connect the Macintosh to testing and measurement equipment. It is Apple Bus compatible and uses the INTEL 8291A and 8292 integrated circuits. It has its own power supply and is the same color as the Macintosh.

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