This book uses the following abbreviations: -
- Hz, kHz, MHz, and GHz
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Hertz (cycles per second), kilohertz (one thousand hertz), megahertz (one million hertz), and gigahertz (one billion, or 10 9 hertz) -
- bps, kbps, Mbps
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Bits per second, kilobits (1,024 bits) per second, and megabits (1,048,576 bits) per second -
- KB/s, MB/s
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Kilobytes (1,024 bytes) per second and megabytes (1,048,576 bytes) per second -
- MB
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Megabytes (1,048,576 bytes) of hard disk or RAM storage -
- mW
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Milliwatts; one thousandth of a watt of power output This book uses the following typographic conventions: -
- Constant width
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Used for listing the output of command-line utilities -
- Constant width italic
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Used to show items that need to be replaced in commands -
- Italic
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Used for emphasis, for first use of a technical term , and for example URLs -
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