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IBM PC

usually refered to as PC; plural: PCs

imagemap

one word; a Web graphic containing "hot spots" that users can click to hotlink to another Web document or to CGI processes

inch

use: "; e.g., 3.5" disks

indefinites

The articles a or an, as well as pronouns (anyone, everybody)and adjectives (any computer, few problems, several solutions) that do not specify distinct limits.

in-house

preceding adj. An operation that takes place on the user's premises.

intercampus

no hyphen

intermachine

no hyphen

Internet

(upper case I) The vast collection of inter-connected networks that all use the TCP/IP protocols and that evolved from the ARPANET of the late 60’s and early 70’s. The Internet now (July 1995) connects roughly 60,000 independent networks into a vast global internet. The network of networks serving educational, military, government, and commercial institutions world wide.  The Internet began as part of federal government sponsored research into high-speed networking    See also: internet

internet

(lower case i) Any time you connect 2 or more networks together, you have an internet - as in inter-national or inter-state.    See also: Internet , Network

Internet Explorer

often referred to a "IE"; Web browser software by Microsoft

interoperate

one word, no hyphen