| ZIF
Socket |
Short
for Zero Insertion Force socket
for integrated circuits that can
be opened with a lever or screw,
allowing the chip to be placed
in the socket without the
application of pressure. The
lever or screw of the socket is
then closed, causing the socket
contacts to grip the chip's pins. |
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| Zip
Drive |
A
disk drive that uses 3.5-inch
sized removable disks (Zip
disks) with the increased
capacity of storing 100
megabytes of data. With
the wide use of CD writers,
these are rapidly becoming
redundant. |
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| Zmodem |
An
enhancement of the Xmodem file
transfer protocol that handles
larger data transfers with less
error. Zmodem includes a feature
called checkpoint restart, which
resumes transmission at the
point of interruption, rather
than at the beginning, if the
communications link is broken
during data transfer. |
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| Zone |
On
a LAN,
it is a subgroup of users within
a larger group of interconnected
networks. Also, in Macintosh
programming, a portion of memory
that is allocated and
reallocated by the memory
manager facility as memory is
requested and released by
applications and by other parts
of the operating system. |
