drive bay
An area of reserved space in a personal computer where hard or floppy disk drives (or tape drives) can be installed. The number of drive bays in a computer determines the total number of internal mass storage devices it can handle.
Read Also:
- Driver
A program that controls a device. Every device, whether it be a printer, disk drive, or keyboard, must have a driver program. Many drivers, such as the keyboard driver, come with the operating system. For other devices, you may need to load a new driver when you connect the device to your computer. In DOS […]
- Drop Cap
In desktop publishing, the first letter of a paragraph that is enlarged to “drop” down two or more lines, as in the next paragraph. Drop caps are often seen at the beginning of novels, where the top of the first letter of the first word lines up with the top of the first sentence and […]
- drop-down menu
Same as pull-down menu.
- drop frame
A type of time code designed to match the real time of clocks. Two frames of time code are dropped every minute, on the minute, except every tenth minute. This corrects for video frames that occur at a rate of 29.97 per second.
- dropper
Also called a dropper program or a virus dropper, a program that when run will install a virus, Trojan horse or worm onto a hard drive, floppy disk or other memory media. The dropper itself is not a virus �� it does not replicate; instead, it��s more like a Trojan horse in that it carries […]