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Enhanced Capabilities Port

(ECP) The most common parallel printer interface on current (1997) IBM PC compatibles.

Enhanced Capabilities Port is defined in standard IEEE 1284. It is bi-directional and faster than earlier parallel ports.

Not to be confused with Extended Capabilities Port.

Last updated: 1997-12-01

Enhanced Directory Service

<operating system>

(EDS) A common, distributed, integrated, directory service with centralized and/or replicated administration.

[Reference?]

Last updated: 2003-06-18

Enhanced Dynamic Random Access Memory

(EDRAM) http://ruralnet.net/~prairie.

[Summary?]

Last updated: 1995-11-23

Enhanced Graphics Adapter

<graphics, hardware>

(EGA) An IBM PC display standard with a resolution of 640 x 350 pixels of 16 colours.

Last updated: 1995-06-28

Enhanced IDE

Advanced Technology Attachment Interface with Extensions

Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics

Advanced Technology Attachment Interface with Extensions

enhanced parallel port

<hardware>

(EPP) A parallel port that confirms to the IEEE's EPP standard. An EPP is actually an expansion bus that can handle 64 disk drives and other peripherals.

["PC Magazine", 1996-01-09, p. 262].

[Details? Manufacturers?]

Last updated: 1996-04-07

Enhanced Small Disk Interface

<storage, hardware>

(ESDI) An obsolete hard disk controller standard, first introduced by Maxtor in 1983, and intended to be the successor to the original ST-506/ST-412. ESDI was faster and more reliable, but still could not compete with IDE and SCSI.

EDSI used two cables: a 20-pin data cable to each drive and a single 34-pin control cable daisy chain with the controller at one end and a terminator at the other. In PCs, it supported up to two drives at 1-2MB/s with drives up to 2GB.

PC Guide.

Last updated: 2003-08-01

enhancement

<marketing>

1. A change intended to make a product better in some way, e.g. new functions, faster, or occasionally more compatible with other systems. Enhancements to hardware components, especially integrated circuits often mean they are smaller and less demanding of resources. Sadly, this is almost never true of software enhancements.

Examples include Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications, Enhanced Capabilities Port, Enhanced Directory Service, Enhanced Dynamic Random Access Memory, Enhanced Graphics Adapter, Enhanced IDE, Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics, enhanced parallel port, Enhanced Small Disk Interface, List Enhanced, Privacy Enhanced Mail.

2. Marketroid-speak for a bug fix. This abuse of language is a popular and time-tested way to turn incompetence into increased revenue. A hacker being ironic would instead call the fix a feature, or perhaps save some effort by declaring "That's not a bug, that's a feature!".

[Jargon File]

Last updated: 1998-04-04

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