Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor: A memory area that is used in AT class, and higher, PCs for storage of system information. CMOS is battery backed RAM (see below), originally used to maintain date and time information while the PC was turned off. CMOS memory is not in the normal CPU address space and cannot be executed (see E2 for further discussion of issues concerning CMOS memory and viruses).
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