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1. MAC address (Score: 0)
   Media Access Control address. A 48-byte address, usually separated by colons that represent the unique address of an E...
2. magic number (Score: 0)
   A number at the beginning of a file used to indicate what type of file it is.
3. Mail Transfer Agent (Score: 0)
   The collection of programs used to transfer mail from one system to another. Most Linux systems provide the sendmail M...
4. Mail User Agent (Score: 0)
   MUA. The program that you use to interface into the mail system, including reading and composing mail.
5. maintenance mode (Score: 0)
   The run-level in which access is only allowed through the system console. Used for maintenance, hence the name. Also cal...
6. major number (Score: 0)
   A number indicating which device driver should be used to access a particular device.
7. man-page (Score: 0)
   A reference page containing useful information about a specific topic.
8. mask (Score: 0)
   A series of bits that ‘covers up' existing settings. For example, the umask masks out file permissions and the netmask m...
9. maskable interrupts (Score: 0)
   Interrupts that can be ignored (masked out).
10. master boot record (Score: 0)
    The first block of your hard disk (or floppy) containing information necessary to find the active partition and boot...
11. Maximum Transmission Unit (Score: 0)
    MUT. Maximum size of a transmitted piece of data.
12. Mb (Score: 0)
    megabyte. 2^20 bytes
13. MBR (Score: 0)
    Master Boot Record. The first block of your hard disk (or floppy) that contains information necessary to find the acti...
14. MCA (Score: 0)
    Micro-Channel Architecture. A computer bus architecture developed by IBM. It provides many advantages over the ISA archi...
15. media (Score: 0)
    Storage material that stores data, such as floppy disks and tapes.
16. Media Access Control (Score: 0)
    The unique identifier given to a network interface card. (NIC).
17. megabyte (Score: 0)
    2^20 bytes. Often erroneously thought of as one million bytes.
18. memory (Score: 0)
    Location for storing programs during execution and their related state information, as well as data.
19. metacharacter (Score: 0)
    A special character that is replaced by character strings by the shell.
20. Micro-Channel Architecture (Score: 0)
    A computer bus architecture developed by IBM. It provides many advantages over the ISA architecture.
21. MIME (Score: 0)
    Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. A standard for mail exchange, which supports graphical, audio, video, and other...
22. minor number (Score: 0)
    A number serving as a flag to a device driver.
23. mirroring (Score: 0)
    See disk mirroring.
24. MO drives (Score: 0)
    Magneto-Optical drives. A storage media that uses both magnetic properties and lasers to store data.
25. modem (Score: 0)
    An electronic device attached to your computer that converts digital signals from the computer to analog signals (mo...
26. modem control port (Score: 0)
    A serial port that reacts to the carrier signal.
27. monitor (Score: 0)
    The television like device used to provide a visual interface to you computer.
28. mount (Score: 0)
    The process by which filesystems are made available.
29. mount point (Score: 0)
    The directory through which the mounted filesystem is accessed.
30. mount table (Score: 0)
    The table containing all of the mounted filesystems.
31. mouse (Score: 0)
    A pointing device used to move a pointer on the screen.
32. MTA (Score: 0)
    Mail Transfer Agent.
33. MTU (Score: 0)
    Maximum Transmission Unit.
34. MUA (Score: 0)
    Mail User Agent.
35. multi-tasking (Score: 0)
    The process by which a computer system is able to maintain multiple programs (tasks) in memory and to switch fast ...
36. multi-user (Score: 0)
    The ability of a computer system to allow multiple users to access the system at once.
37. multi-user mode (Score: 0)
    The run state of the system in which access is allowed on terminals other than the system console.
38. multiprocessor system (Score: 0)
    A computer system with more than one CPU.
39. multiscreen (Score: 0)
    One of the 12 console 'terminals'.