portable Last modified: Thursday, April 01, 2004
(adj.) (1) When used to describe hardware, portable means small and lightweight. A portable computer is a computer small enough to carry. Portable computers include notebook and subnotebook computers, hand-held computers, palmtops, and PDAs. (2) When used to describe software, portable means that the software has the ability to run on a variety of computers. Portable and machine independent mean the same thing—that the software does not depend on a particular type of hardware. Sponsored listings Portable Classrooms & Mobile Classrooms - For portable classrooms for your school, look to Williams Scotsman. We've supplied portable classrooms to the education industry for over 50 years.
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