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- MAC address
The address that is either assigned to a network card or burned into the NIC. PCs use MAC addresses to keep track of one another and keep each other separate.
- master
An IDE drive responsible for managing data transfers for itself and the slave drive.
- Media Access Control (MAC)
A sublayer of the Data Link layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model that controls the way multiple devices use the same media channel. It controls which devices can transmit and when they can transmit.
- memory address
The named hexadecimal address of a particular location in memory. The operating system uses memory addresses to keep track of what data is stored in what physical location with memory banks.
- memory management
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