Definition: Host Adapter


A plug-in board that acts as the interface between a computer system bus and the disk drive.




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Central Processing Unit (CPU)

The main processing chip of a computer. The CPU interprets and executes the actual computing tasks, and has the ability to transfer information to and from other resources over the computer's main data-transfer path, the bus.

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