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The connection and interaction between hardware, software and the user. Users "talk to" the software. The software "talks to" the hardware and other software. Hardware "talks to" other hardware. All this is interfacing. It has to be designed, developed, tested and redesigned; and with each incarnation, a new specification is born that may become yet one more de facto or regulated standard. Every interface implies a function. At the hardware level, electronic signals activate functions; data are read, written, transmitted, received, checked for error, etc. At the software level, instructions activate the hardware (access methods, data link protocols, etc.). At higher levels, the data transferred or transmitted may itself request functions to be performed (client/server, program to program, etc.). All the above interactions are interfaces. Regardless of what they are called, they all create rules that must be precisely followed in a digital world.
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Next-generation Serial ATA products promise to double hard drive interface performance from 1. Dual interface monitors are growing extremely rapidly from about 900,000 units or 13 percent of the worldwide LCD monitor market in 2000 to more than five million units next year," says David Mentley, Senior Vice President of market-research firm Stanford Resources. Today the 20-year-old from Simi Valley is in her sophomore year at California State University, Northridge, and getting good grades, thanks in part to the guidance she's received through the Independent Living Program, operated by Interface Children Family Services. |
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