Microsoft KB Archive/126635

= MS PRESS COMPUTER DICTIONARY: Corrections and Comments =

Article ID: 126635

Article Last Modified on 1/8/2000

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 * MSPRESS Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary, second edition ISBN 1-55615-597-2

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SUMMARY
This article contains information on known errors, corrections, and comments relating to the Microsoft Press book "Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary," second edition.

The following topics are covered:
 * Pages 20 and 21: Animation Defines Film Display Rate Incorrectly
 * Page 55: B-tree Is Missing Arrow
 * Page 153: Exabyte Number Correction; Exclusive OR Correction
 * Page 174: FORTRAN Definition: Reference to "Jim" Backus Incorrect
 * Page 378: Swapping Definition Incorrectly Refers to "Paging"
 * Pages 384 and 396: TCP/IP Definition Incorrect
 * Page 472: IBM Extended Character Set Incorrect
 * New Term: Unicode



MORE INFORMATION
In addition to a description of the book's problems, this document might also include sections labeled "Correction" and "Comments." Please note that the "Correction" section is worded for correcting the book and does not necessarily address the problem introduced by the book error. The "Comments" section contains specific information for working around problems.

Pages 20 and 21: Animation Defines Film Display Rate Incorrectly
On page 21, lines 7, 9, and 10 refer to film animation frame rates as 28 fps and 14 fps. However, the motion picture standard frame rate is 24 fps.

Correction:

Change line 7 from "Film animation displays at 28 fps" to "Film animation displays at 24 fps."

Change line 9 from "14 fps, but each frame is printed twice" to "12 fps, but each frame is printed twice."

Change line 10 from "Disney cartoons are animated at the full 28" to "Disney cartoons are animated at the full 24."

Page 55: B-tree Is Missing Arrow
The B-tree diagram at the bottom of page 55 is missing an arrow from box 71 on tier 2 to box 42 on tier 3.

Correction:

Draw an arrow from box 71 on tier 2 to box 42 on tier 3.

Page 153: Exabyte Number Correction; Exclusive OR Correction
There are two errors on page 153:
 * Error 1: The number defined in exebyte should not have a dash before the final three digits.
 * Error 2: The first entry under the "a XOR b" column of the exclusive OR definition should be 0, not 20.

Corrections:
 * Error 1 correction: The number in exebyte should be 1,152,921,504,606,846,976.
 * Error 2 correction: The first entry in the exclusive OR table under "a XOR b" should be 0.

Page 174: FORTRAN Definition: Reference to "Jim" Backus Incorrect
Correction:

On page 174, column 2, line 2, change "Jim Backus" to "John Backus."

Page 378: Swapping Definition Incorrectly Refers to "Paging"
The definition for "swapping" refers to virtual memory paging. However, swapping and paging are two different concepts.

Correction:

Add an entry for "paging" and use as its definition the current definition of "swapping," starting with the second sentence.

Change the "swapping" definition to the following:

Swapping: The process of exchanging one item for another, as in swapping floppy disks as needed, in and out of a single disk drive. Within a computer, swapping refers to swapping a process from memory to a hard disk or vice versa. Windows 286 and Windows 3.0 Standard mode provided memory swapping for MS-DOS applications. Windows would store the current RAM contents, including most of Windows itself, before loading the MS- DOS program into memory to run. When the user switched to another task or the MS-DOS application was terminated, Windows swapped back the prior memory contents from the hard disk to its prior location in RAM. Windows 3.0 introduced Enhanced mode, which uses paging instead of swapping. See also virtual memory, paging.

This definition is subject to further improvement before inclusion in the next printing.

Comments:

Typically, you use "swapping" to describe the swapping of an entire process from memory to hard drive when you are running Windows 286 or Windows 3.0 Standard mode. The current definition (starting from the second sentence) more accurately describes "paging."

Pages 384 and 396: TCP/IP Definition Incorrect
TCP/IP is incorrectly defined on page 384 in the second edition of the Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary.

The correct TCP/IP definition is "Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol."

Correction:

On page 384, the TCP/IP definition should read:

TCP/IP: Acronym for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, a software protocol developed by the Department of Defense for communications between computers.

On page 396, "Transport Control Protocol/Interface Program" definition should be changed to read: "Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. See TCP/IP." Also, this entry must be moved to the top of the second column, between the "transmission channel" and "Transmit Data" definitions.

Standard Computer Dictionary font styles and bolding conventions apply.

Page 472: IBM Extended Character Set Incorrect
The IBM extended character set shown on page 472 is incorrect for decimal entries 176 through 223. The "MS-DOS 6 Companion" contains a correct table of this character set.

Comments:

Due to the nature of extended characters, it is not possible to store them in this ASCII database. Please refer to page 643 of the "MS-DOS 6 Companion" or some other MS-DOS reference book for the correct table.

New Term: Unicode
The Unicode Standard is a world-wide 16-bit character encoding system. It is a fixed-width, uniform text and character encoding scheme that includes characters from the world's scripts, as well as technical symbols in common use. It is maintained by the Unicode Consortium and corresponds to international standard ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993.

Correction:

This term will be added to the next edition of this book.

Microsoft Press is committed to providing informative and accurate books. All comments and corrections listed above are ready for inclusion in future printings of this book. If you have a later printing of this book, it may already contain most or all of the above corrections.

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