PIGGYBACKING


Meaning of PIGGYBACKING in English

1. A method for passing acknowledgement frame s and data frame s in the same direction along a line.

2. The practice of increasing memory capacity by soldering chips on top of other chips. The chip-enable or high address pins would be connected to the address bus by a flying lead. Many Ohio Superboard s were expanded to a massive 8K of RAM in this way.

(1994-11-29)

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