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- Computer Virus
- See virus.
- Cross-platform technologies
- Enabling technologies that allow communication and sharing of resources between different platform.
- Cookie
- A message given to your Web browser by the Web server being accessed. It is also a text file containing user preference information.
- CPU
- See Processor
- Cursor, graphics
- Typically an arrow or a crosshair that can be moved about a monitor's screen by a point-and-draw device to create a graphic image or select an item from the menu
- Cumulative trauma disorder
- Repetitive motion disorders of the musculoskeletal and nervous systems that, often, are a result of poor workplace design.
- Cryptography
- A communications crime-prevention technology that uses methods of data encryption and decryption to scramble codes sent over communications channels.
- Custom programming
- Program development to creat software for situations unique to a particular processing environment.
- Current Window
- The window in a GUI in which the user can manipulate text, data, or graphics.
- CSMA/CD access method
- A network access methods in which nodes of LAN must contend for the right to send a message.
- Cursor, text
- A blinking character that indicates the location of the next keyed-in character on the display screen.
- Coprocessor
- An auxiliary processor that handles a narrow range of tasks, usually those associated with arithmetic operations.
- Computerese
- A colloquial reference to the language of computers and information technology.
- Cracker
- An overzealous hacker who "cracks" through network security to gain unauthorized access to the network.
- Connectivity
- Pertains to a degree to which hardware devices, software, and database can be functionally linked to one another.
- Context-sensitive
- Refering to an on-screen explanation that relates to a user's current software activity.
- CRT
- The video monitoring component of a terminal.
- Cooperative Processing
- An environment in which organizations cooperate internally and externally to take full advantage of availble information and to obtain meaningful, accurate, and timely information.
- Cyberphobia
- The irrational fear of, and aversion to, computers.
- Control Unit
- The portion of the processor that interprets program instuctions, directs internal operations, and directs the flow of input/output to or from RAM.
- Cursor-control keys
- The arrow keys on the keyboard that move the cursor vertically and horizontally.
- Configuration
- The computer and its peripheral devices.
- Computer System
- A collective reference to all interconnected computing hardware, including processors, storage devices, input/output devices, and communication equpment.