PC Hardware ACRONYMS


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ABIOS - Advanced Basic Input/Output System

ANSI - American National Standards Institute

ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange

BIOS - Basic Input/Output System.

CD-ROM - Compact Disk - Read Only Memory.

CISC - Complex Instruction-Set Computer.

CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor.

CRAP - Cannot Really Assess Possibilities

DMA - Direct Memory Access

DASD - Direct Access Storage Device

DIMM - Dual Inline Memory Module

DIP - Dual In-Line Pin (switches & chips)

DIPP - Dual In-Line Pin Package

DMA - Direct Memory Access

DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory

EDO - Extended Data Out

EEC - Error Correction Code

EGA - Enhanced Graphics Adapter

EISA - Extended Industry Standard Architecture

ELF - Extremely Low Frequency

EPROM - Erasable Programmable ROM

EEPROM - Electronically Erasable PROM

EIDE - Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics

EMS - Extended Memory Specification

ESDI - Enhanced Small Device Interface

FAT - File Allocation Table

FPU - Floating-Point Unit

HTML - Hypertext Mark-Up Language

IDE - Integrated Drive Electronics

IRQ - Interrupt

LCD - Liquid Crystal Display

LED - Light Emitting Diode

MBPS - Megabits per second

MCA - Micro Channel Architecture

MHz - Megahertz

MMX - Multi-Media Extensions

OCR - Optical Character Recognition

OLE - Object Linking and Embedding

PCI - Peripheral Component Interface

PCL - Printer Control Language

PCMCIA - Personal Computer Memory Card Industry Association

PIC - Programmable Interrupt Controller

PIF - Program Information File

PnP - Plug and Play

PROM - Programmable Read Only Memory.

RAID - Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks

RAM - Random Access Memory

RISC - Reduced Instruction-Set Computer

ROM - Read Only Memory

SCSI - Small Computer System Interface

SDRAM - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

SIMM - Single In-Lime Memory Module

SIPP - Single In-Line Pin Package

SLIP - Serial Line Internet Protocol

SQL - Structured Query Language

SRAM - Static Random Access Memory

SVGA - Super Video Graphics Array

TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TIFF - Tagged Image File Format

UART - Universal Asynchronous Receive/Transmitter

UMB - Upper Memory Block

URL - Uniform Resource Locator

USB - Universal Serial Bus

VESA - Video Electronics Standards Association

VGA - Video Graphics Array

VL BUS - VESA Local Bus

VRAM - Video Random Access Memory

VTAM - Virtual Telecommunications Access Method (IBM)

WAN - Wide Area Network

WORM - Write Once - Read Many

WRAM - Windows Random Access Memory

WWW - World Wide Web

WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get

XGA - Extended Graphics Adapter

XMS - Extended Memory Specification


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