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Icon Bar
Additional buttons that can be placed next to the desktop buttons; for example, shortcuts to your home directory, to your trashcan, to the kvt terminal emulator and to the documents you use often.

Iconify
A term used to describe the process of reducing the size of the window to an icon, when iconified a window takes up no desktop space.

Initialization Files
Executes a series of commands when the shell is started. These files customize the enviornment for the system and the user.

Input/Output
Abbreviated I/O, this term is used to describe the transfer of data between the computer and its peripherals.

Interface
The point in a computer where two different subsystems are connected. An example would be a com port where a mouse can be connected to the system.

Internet
The worlds largest computer network, this is designed to allow people anywhere in the world to transfer data to each other.