Do you need IT Support?
Customers with a Support Contract in place can contact the BrightVisions Active Support Team for technical help.
Alternatively, any business customer can book an IT Consultation or contact BrightVisions to discuss your current IT arrangement and requirements with a BrightVisions member of staff.
Confused about what a term or phrase means?
Have a look at our Glossery of IT Terms to get a definition or explanation.
Do you have a General or Technical Question?
The good news is you're probably not the first person to ask that question, so have a look at the Previously Asked Questions to find your answer.
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A Cache is a memory store used to hold a copy of data and is used to improve the apparent speed of computer components such as processors, disk drives, graphics cards etc. The cache is effective as it can invariably store and retrieve data faster than the device to which is attached, and so if a copy of the data that is being read is stored in a cache, it can be retrieved more quickly from the cache than from that device. |
CD-ROM stands for Compact Disk Read Only Memory (not recordable)
This is the technical term for a CD, but this term is usually used to mean a CD-ROM Drive, which is the device that is used to read a CD. |
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CD stands for Compact Disk (or Change Directory when using DOS) |
CD-R stands for Compact Disk Recordable (not re-writable)
This is a CD that can be written to, that is, information can be recorded onto the CD using a CD-ROM Drive that is capable of writing to CD-R's. |
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