configuration
Definition 1
Physical layout, interconnections, and functional characteristics of a computer system (usually called Configuration Item), set forth in its technical documentation as required for its assembly, testing, installation, operation, and maintenance.
Definition 2
Preferred hardware-software arrangement (specific to a particular computing environment) involving dip-switch settings, interface settings, jumper settings, hardware drivers, software options, etc., that determines what the system will do and how its parts will interact.
configuration is in the Computer Hardware, Software, & Security subject.
configuration appears in the definitions of the following terms:
transformation,
erasable, programmable, read only memory (EPROM),
adaptive system,
system design,
transistor,
gestalt,
self test,
disk mirroring,
integrated services digital network (ISDN),
structural uncertainty
and
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