controller
<hardware>
Part of a computer, typically a separate circuit board, which allows the computer to use certain kinds of peripheral devices. A disk controller is used to connect hard disks and floppy disks, a network controller is used for Ethernet. Other controllers are: keyboard controller, interrupt controller and graphics controller.
Last updated: 1998-03-16
Nearby terms:
control key ♦ Control Language ♦ controller ♦ control-O ♦ Control Program
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