Crossword clues for cd-rom
cd-rom
The Collaborative International Dictionary
CD-ROM \CD-ROM\ n. a compact disk that is used with a computer (rather than with an audio system); a large amount of digital information can be stored and accessed but it cannot be altered by the user.
Syn: compact disc read-only memory.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1983, in computer jargon; also cd-rom; from compact disc read-only memory.
Wiktionary
alt. compact disk - read only memory. n. compact disk - read only memory.
Wikipedia
A CD-ROM is a pre-pressed optical compact disc which contains data. The name is an acronym which stands for "Compact Disc Read-Only Memory". Computers can read CD-ROMs, but cannot write to CD-ROMs which are not writable or erasable.
From the mid-1990s until the mid-2000s, CD-ROMs were popularly used to distribute software for computers and video game consoles. Some CDs, called enhanced CDs, hold both computer data and audio with the latter capable of being played on a CD player, while data (such as software or digital video) is only usable on a computer (such as ISO 9660 format PC CD-ROMs).
The Yellow Book is the technical standard that defines the format of CD-ROMs. One of a set of color-bound books that contain the technical specifications for all CD formats, the Yellow Book, created by Sony and Philips in 1988, was the first extension of Compact Disc Digital Audio. It adapted the format to hold any form of digital data.
Usage examples of "cd-rom".
There are currently six stories in the series, which appear as chapbooks or on CD-ROM, and full details are available from my Web site: www.
The system depended on CD-ROMs stamped with totally random transpositions, and unless you could find a key to atmospheric RF noise, that was the end of that.
Dissemination-Grids, screens so hÃgh-def you might as well be there, cost-effective videophonic conferencing, internal Froxx CD-ROM, electronic couture, all-in-one consoles, Yushityu ceramic nanoprocessors, laser chromatography, Virtual-capable media-cards, fiber-optic pulse, digital encoding, killer apps.
And as InterLace's eventual outright purchase of the Networks' production talent and facilities, of two major home-computer conglomerates, of the cutting-edge Froxx 2100 CD-ROM licenses of Aapps Inc.
Your computer notices a bootable disk in the floppy or CD-ROM drive, loads in some object code from that disk, and blindly begins to execute it.
DigiCom's Malaysia operation was only a year old, and it was manufacturing the company's new CD-ROM players-units rather like an audio CD player, but intended for computers.
But a more careful examination would have revealed that the first -- outermost -- data line on the metallic surface told the computer CD-ROM reader to skip to a certain place where the content was not music, but binary code, and very efficient binary code at that.
The first time I successfully installed Linux, I finally hit on something that worked by using the boot disk from one distribution with the CD-ROM for another.
I began to cast around for a good subject for our first big project, a CD-ROM adventure game that would combine state-of-the-art graphics with a natural language parser which would enable the player to engage the characters in conversation.
He had hooked up a CD-ROM drive to the PC on Gilmore's desk and was staring at the screen, right hand on mouse, left hand on keyboard, bottom jaw on floor.
Randy moves the golden disc to the CD-ROM drive that is built into his laptop, and checks it out.
For example, even if you normally start Windows NT from the C: drive, someone could select another version of Windows on another drive, including a floppy drive or CD-ROM drive.
She rolled her chair a few feet to the next keyboard and stuck another disc into its CD-rom drive, quickly calling up some documents on to the screen.
In reasonable definition and color Terminator 2's robots from the future slugged it out, running from the CD-ROM drive.
The CD-ROM drive protruded from the casing like an impetuous teenager’.