"The Atari A to Z"
                              by Mark S Baines
                      Copyright (c) 1998 Mark S Baines
                             All Rights Reserved


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Q


Quadbit
Four bits transmitted in a single Baud.


Quantizing
The process of dividing a range of values into bands or subdivisions, each 
being considered as a separate unit. This term can be applied to the process 
of representing an analogue wave by a sequence of discrete signals or 
characters each representing the amplitude of the wave at some point in time 
at which it is sampled. See Sampling.


Query
A search of data.


Query language
A programming language, similar to BASIC, used by some applications (usually 
databases) to search through data and produce a formatted output.


Queue
A FIFO data structure.


Quick keys
A term given to keyboard equivalent commands of functions in a WIMP/GUI 
environment. The Save command can be accessed from the "Save" item in the 
"File" menu or the quick key combination [Cntl-S] may be used. See Keyboard 
equivalents.


QWERTY
A term applied to a keyboard in which the alphabetical keys are arranged in 
the UK/US style, where the first six keys on the top alphabetic row are 
"QWERTY".


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