Quad-speed drive
CD-ROM
drive that spins the disc at four times
the speed of a single-speed drive,
providing higher data throughput of
600Kbps and shorter seek times, which
means you go to where you want more
quickly. Quad-speed drives are now
standard on most new PCs. In
high-performance PCs they have been
superseded by six-speed drives.
Quantize
1) To
convert an analogue signal into a
numerical representation.
2) To
process a MIDI file and align all the
notes to a regular beat, removing any
timing errors.
Query window
1)
Window that appears when an error has
occurred, asking the user what action
you like to take.
2)
Window that is displayed with fields you
can fill in to search a database.
Qwerty
keyboard
English-language keyboard layout for a
typewriter or computer, in which the top
line of letters are QWERTY. The French
use a different layout with the top line
reading AZERTY.
