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G-14 Glossary
environment variables Settings that define the system and user environment information;
they contain information such as a drive, path, or file name.
ESDI See Enhanced Small Device Interface (ESDI).
EULA See End-User License Agreement (EULA).
event An action or occurrence to which a program might respond. Examples of
events are mouse clicks, key presses, and mouse movements. Also, any significant
occurrence in the system or in a program that requires users to be notified or an
entry to be added to a log.
Event Viewer A utility that allows you to monitor the events that Windows XP Professional
records in various logs.
exabyte See byte.
exception Unsolicited network traffic that you have specifically configured Windows
Firewall to allow.
Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) A 32-bit bus design for x86based
computers introduced in 1988. EISA was specified by an industry consortium
of nine computer companies (AST Research, Compaq, Epson, Hewlett-Packard,
NEC, Olivetti, Tandy, Wyse, and Zenith). An EISA device uses cards that are
upwardly compatible from ISA. See also Industry Standard Architecture (ISA).
extended partition A partition that provides a way to exceed the four primary partition
limit. You cannot format an extended partition with any file system. Rather,
extended partitions serve as a shell in which you can create any number of logical
partitions.
Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) An extension to the Point-to-Point Protocol
(PPP) that works with dial-up, PPTP, and L2TP clients. EAP allows for an
arbitrary authentication mechanism to validate a dial-up connection. The exact
authentication method to be used is negotiated by the dial-up client and the
remote access server.
F
FAT See file allocation table (FAT).
FAT32 A derivative of the file allocation table file system. FAT32 supports smaller
cluster sizes than FAT in the same given disk space, which results in more efficient
space allocation on FAT32 drives. See also file allocation table (FAT).
fault tolerance The capability of a computer or an operating system to respond to
an event such as a power outage or a hardware failure so that no data is lost and
any work in progress is not corrupted.
FDDI See Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI).