Hw #12 Terms: for Tech:

1. Partition: Disk partitioning is the act or practice of dividing the storage space of a hard disk drive into separate data areas known as partitions.
   
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2. Gateway:A Gateway is a link between two computer programs or systems such as Internet Forums. A gateway acts as a portal between two programs allowing them to share information by communicating between protocols on a computer or between computers.
   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_(computer_program)
   
   
3. Telnet:Telnet (Telecommunication network) is a network protocol used on the Internet or local area networks. It was developed in 1969 beginning with RFC 15 and standardized as IETF STD 8, one of the first Internet standards. Typically, Telnet provides access to a command-line interface on a remote machine.
   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telnet
   
   
4. X86:The generic term x86 refers to the most commercially successful instruction set architecture[1] in the history of personal computing. It derived from the model numbers, ending in "86", of the first few processor generations backward compatible with the original Intel 8086.
   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86
   
   
5. Peripheral:A peripheral is a device attached to a host computer behind the chipset whose primary functionality is dependent upon the host, and can therefore be considered as expanding the hosts capabilities, while not forming part of the system's core architecture.
   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral