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Assembly Language: A machine-oriented language in which mne
monics are used to represent each machine-language instruc
tion. Each CPU has its own specific assembly language. See j [
CPU and machine language.
Assignment Statement: A BASIC statement that sets a variable, j j
constant or array element to a specific numeric or string value.
Asynchronous Transmission: A scheme in which data characters { |
are sent at random time intervals. Limits phone-line transmis
sion to about 2,400 baud (bps). See Synchronous Transmission.
Attack: The rate at which the volume of a musical note rises from
zero to peak volume.
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Background Colon The color of the portion of the screen that the
characters are placed upon.
BASIC: Acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction
Code.
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Baud: Serial-data transmission speed. Originally a telegraph term,
300 baud is approximately equal to a transmission speed of 30
bytes or characters per second. { \
Binary: A base-2 number system. All numbers are represented as a
sequence of zeros and ones. \U
Bit: The abbreviation for Binary diglT. A bit is the smallest unit in a
computer. Each binary digit can have one of two values, zero or
one. A bit is referred to as enabled or "on" if it equals one. A bit
is disabled or "off" if it equals zero.
Bit Control: A means of transmitting serial data in which each bit
has a significant meaning and a single character is surrounded
with start and stop bits.
Bit Map Mode: An advanced graphic mode in the Commodore 128
in which you can control every dot on the screen.
Border Color: The color of the edges around the screen.
Branch: To jump to a section of a program and execute it. GOTO and
GOSUB are examples of BASIC branch instructions.
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