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286 : Intel 80286 processor. |
2D : Two (bi) Dimensional: x and y axes. |
2K : 2000. |
386 : Intel 80386 processor. |
386MAX : Qualitas 386 Expanded Memory Manager (386MAX.SYS). |
3D : Three (tri) Dimensional: x, y and z axes. |
3dfx :
3d Graphics Interactive (Voodoo family 3D chipsets). |
3DNow! : AMD K6/K7/Athlon/Duron CPU multimedia extensions. |
3DRAM : 3D Dynamic Random Access Memory. |
486 : Intel 80486 processor. |
586 : Intel 80586 processor (Pentium/Pentium Pro). |
686 : Intel 80686 processor (Pentium II/III). |
86 : Intel 80X86 central processing unit (CPU). |
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A3D : Aureal 3D surround sound technology. |
AA : Anti-Aliasing edge smoothing technology (3D video). |
AAAS :
American Association for the Advancement of Science. |
AAF : Advanced Authoring format (Microsoft video). |
AC : Alternating Current. |
AC-3 : Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound standard (5 + 1 = 6 channels). |
ACPI : Advanced Configuration Power Interface. |
ADC : Analog to Digital Converter. |
ADPCM : Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation. |
ADSL : Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line modem. |
ADVD : Audio Digital Versatile Disc. |
AFR : Alternate Frame Rendering (ATI Rage Fury MAXX). |
AFM : Atomic Force Microscope. |
AGP : Accelerated Graphics Port technology standard (Intel). |
AGP-1x : Accelerated Graphics Port technology 1st generation standard: 66 MB/sec bandwidth (Intel). |
AGP-2x : Accelerated Graphics Port technology 2nd generation standard using sidebands: 133 MB/sec bandwidth (Intel). |
AGP-4x : Accelerated Graphics Port technology 3nd generation standard using fast writes: 266 MB/sec bandwidth (Intel). |
AGRAS : AntiGlare AntiReflection AntiStatic screen treatment (CRT). |
AI : Artificial Intelligence. |
AIFF : Audio Interchange File Format (Apple). |
AIT : Advanced Intelligent Tape (Sony). |
ALDC : Adaptive Lossless Data Compression (IBM). |
AMD :
Advanced Micro Devices Incorporated. |
AMI :
American Megatrends Incorporated. |
AMR : Audio/Modem Riser slot (Intel Pentium III 8281x chipsets). |
ANI : Microsoft Windows ANImated cursor graphic file. |
ANSI :
American National Standards Institute |
AOL :
America OnLine Incorporated |
API : Application Programming Interface. |
APIC : Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller. |
APM : Advanced Power Management. |
ARAG : AntiReflection AntiGlare screen treatment (CRT). |
ARAS : AntiReflection AntiStatic screen treatment (CRT). |
ARP : Address Resolution Protocol. |
ASC : Active Signal Correction technology (Sony CRT). |
ASCII : American Standard Code for Information Interchange. |
ASF : Advanced Streaming Format (Microsoft NetShow). |
ASIC : Application Specific Integrated Circuit. |
ASP : (1) Advanced Sound Processor (Creative Labs). |
ASP : (2) Application Service Provider. |
ASPI : Advanced SCSI Programming Interface. |
ASVD : Analog Simultaneous Voice and Data. |
Async SRAM : Asynchronous Static Random Access Memory (CPU L2 cache). |
AT : Advanced Technology (Intel motherboard form factor). |
ATA : Advanced Technology Attachment (ANSI standard for Integrated Drive Electronics). |
ATA-4 : Ultra ATA/Ultra DMA 33.33 MB/second tranfer rate (EIDE/ATA hard disk controller/drive standard). |
ATA-6 : Ultra ATA/Ultra DMA 66.66 MB/second tranfer rate (EIDE/ATA hard disk controller/drive standard). |
ATA-8 : Ultra ATA/Ultra DMA 100 MB/second tranfer rate (EIDE/ATA hard disk controller/drive standard). |
ATAPI : Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface. |
Athlon : AMD Athlon K7 CPU. |
ATM : (1) Adobe Type Manager. |
ATM : (2) Asynchronous Transfer Mode (network). |
ATSC :
AdvancedTelevision Systems Committee. |
ATV : Advanced TeleVision (i.e. HDTV). |
ATX : Advanced Technology EXtended (Intel motherboard form factor). |
AUTOEXEC.BAT : AUTOmatically EXECuted BATch file. |
AVI : Advanced Video Interleave (Microsoft video). |
AWR : Active Wide Range playback system (Toshiba CD-ROM). |
AXCEL216 : Packard Bell AXCEL216 386/SX 25 MHz (my first PC). |
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b : bit (binary digit): unit of digital information: 1 bit = 0 or 1. |
B : Byte (Binary octet): unit of digital data: 1 Byte = 8 bits. |
BASIC : Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. |
BAT : MS-DOS ASCII BATch program file. |
Baud : Modem line (carrier) signaling high/low shifts/events per second. |
BBS : Bulletin Board System. |
BDA : BIOS Data Area. |
BEDO : Burst Extended Data Out (DRAM). |
BGA : Ball Grid Array (242 pin Intel CPU). |
BIF : Binary Image Format file. |
BIOS : Basic Input Output System. |
BMP : RGB/RLE encoded Microsoft Windows BitMap Picture file. |
bpp : bits per pixel. |
Bps : Bytes per second. |
bps : bits per second. |
BSB : Back Side Bus (motherboard CPU to RAM bus). |
BSOD :
Blue Screen Of Death [Microsoft Windows most dreaded "feature" :)]. |
bus : Binary data gateway between hardware modules: CPU, RAM, I/O etc. |
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CAB : CABinet compression format standard (Microsoft). |
CAD : Computer Aided Design. |
CADD : Computer Aided Design and Drafting. |
CAS : Column Access Strobe. |
CAV : Constant Angular Velocity (Compact Disk). |
CCITT :
Commité Consultatif International du Télégraphe et Téléphonie (International Telegraph and Telephony Consultative Committee). |
CD : Compact Disk. |
CD-DA : Compact Disk Digital Audio. |
CDFS : CD-ROM File System (data CD). |
CD-I : Compact Disc Interactive. |
CDR : CorelDRAW! image file. |
CDRAM : Cache Dynamic Random Access Memory. |
CD-R : Compact Disk Recorder. |
CD-RAM : Compact Disk Rewritable Access Media. |
CD-ROM : Compact Disk Read Only Media. |
CD-ROM/XA : Compact Disk Read Only Media EXtended Architecture (Sony, Philips, Microsoft). |
CD-RW : Compact Disk ReWritable. |
CDSL :Consumer Digital Subscriber Line modem technology (Rockwell). |
Celeron : Intel Pentium II/III Celeron CPU (80686). |
CERT : Computer Emergency Response Team. |
CGA : Color Graphics Adapter. |
CGI : (1) Computer Generated Image. |
CGI : (2)Common Gateway Interface. |
CGM : Computer Graphics Metafile. |
CHAP : Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol. |
CHS : Cylinder/Head/Sector (hard drive). |
CIAC : Computer
Incident Advisory Capability team. |
CIFS : Common Internet File System |
CISC : Complex Instruction Set Computing (CPU). |
CL : Creative Labs Limited |
CLP : Microsoft Windows CLiPboard Bitmap file. |
CLV : Constant Linear Velocity (Compact Disk). |
CMOS : Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor manufacturing process. |
CMOS 7S : CMOS 7S manufacturing process (IBM). |
CMOS-SOS : CMOS Silicon On Sapphire manufacturing process. |
CMP : Chip MultiProcessing (more than 1 CPU per chip). |
CMS : ColorSync Color Management System (Apple). |
CNR : Communications/Network Riser slot (Intel Pentium III 8281x chipsets). |
COBOL : COmmon Business Oriented Language. |
CODEC : Digital video COmpressor and DECompressor (Intel Indeo). |
COM : (1) Serial COMmunication Port. |
COM : (2) Component Object Model (Microsoft). |
CON : CONsole (display). |
CONFIG.SYS : CONFIGuration SYStem file. |
cps : characters per second. |
CPU : Central Processing Unit (processor). |
CRC : Cyclical Redundancy Check. |
CRT : Cathode Ray Tube. |
CS : CompuServe. |
CSLIP : Compressed Serial Line Internet Protocol. |
CSS : Cascading Style Sheets HTML specifications (W3C). |
CSS1 : Cascading Style Sheets mechanism level 1 (W3C). |
CSS2 : Cascading Style Sheets mechanism level 2 (W3C). |
CUR : Microsoft Windows static CURsor graphic file. |
CUT : Dr. Halo picture file. |
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D3D : DirectX 3D APIs (Microsoft Windows 9x/2000/ME). |
DAC : Digital to Analog Converter. |
DAT : Digital Audio Tape. |
dB : deciBel (10 dB = 1 Bel). |
DBS : Digital Broadcasting System. |
DC : Direct Current. |
DCE : Data Communications Equipment (modem to modem speed). |
DDC : Display Data Channel. |
DDE : Dynamic Data Exchange. |
DDMA : Distributed Direct Memory Access standard. |
DDR-SDRAM : = Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory. |
DDSS : Dolby Digital AC-3 5.1 Surround Sound standard (5 + 1 = 6 channels). |
DEK : Data Encryption Key. |
DES : Data Encryption Standard. |
DHCP : Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. |
DHTML : Dynamic HyperText Markup Language (W3C). |
DIB : (1) RGB/RLE encoded Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap. |
DIB : (2) Dual Independent Bus architecture (Intel Pentium Pro and Pentium II/III). |
DIG : Digital Imaging Group. |
DIMM : Dual In-line Memory Module. |
DIN : Deutsches Institut
für Normung (German Institute for Standards). |
DIP : Dual In-line Package. |
DIVX : DIgital Video eXpress (discontinued DVD standard). |
DLL : Dynamic Link Library. |
DLP : Digital Light Processing technology, also DMD (Texas Instruments). |
DLS : DownLoadable Sounds standard (PCI MIDI). |
DMA : Direct Memory Access. |
DMD : Digital Micromirror Device, also DLP (Texas Instruments). |
DME : Direct Memory Execution (Intel I-740). |
DMF : Distribution Media Format: high density floppy disk (Microsoft). |
DMI : Desktop Management Interface. |
DMTF : Desktop Management Task Force. |
DNA : Distributed interNet Applications architecture (Windows 98). |
DNS : Domain Naming System. |
DOCSIS : ITU J.112 Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification. |
DOF : Depth Of Field (3D video). |
DOM : Document Object Model standard (W3C). |
DOS : Disk Operating System. |
DPI : Dots Per Inch. |
DPLSS : Dolby Pro Logic Surround Sound standard (5 channels). |
DPMA : Dynamic Power Management Architecture (Intel PCI/AGP chipsets). |
DPMI : DOS Protected Mode Interface. |
DPMS : VESA Display Power Management Signaling standard. |
DRAM : Dynamic Random Access Memory. |
DR-DOS : Lineo (Caldera Digital Research) Disk Operating System. |
Drive-TIP : = Drive Temperature Indicator Processor (IBM hard drive). |
DRP : Distribution and Replication Protocol. |
DRW : Micrografx DRaW image file. |
DS3D : DirectSound 3D APIs (Microsoft Windows 9x/2000/ME). |
DSC : Digital Servo Control (Toshiba CD-ROM). |
DS/DD : Double-Sided Double-Density (floppy disk standard: 720 KB). |
DS/HD : Double-Sided High-Density (floppy disk standard: 1.44 MB). |
DSL : Digital Subscriber Line modem. |
DSP : (1) Digital Signal Processor. |
DSP : (2) Delivery Service Partner (OEM). |
DSS : (1) Digital Satellite System. |
DSS : (2) Digital Signature Standard certificate. |
DSVD : Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data. |
DTD : Document Type Definition. |
DTE : Data Terminal Equipment (modem to computer speed). |
DTP : DeskTop Publishing. |
DTR : Data Transfer Rate (throughput). |
DTS : Digital Theatre Surround (3D audio). |
DTV : (1) DeskTop Video. |
DTV : (2) Digital TeleVision. |
DUN : Dial-Up Networking (Microsoft Windows 95/98). |
DVD : Digital Versatile (Video) Disc. |
DVD-2 : Second generation DVD drive. |
DVD-R : Digital Versatile Disk Recordable. |
DVD-RAM : Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable Access Media. |
DVD-ROM : Digital Versatile Disc Read Only Media. |
DVD+RW : Digital Versatile Disk ReWritable (new standard). |
DVI : Digital Video Interactive (Intel). |
DX : X86 Intel CPU with FPU (386/DX, 486/DX). |
DX3D : DirectX 3D APIs (Microsoft Windows 9x/2000/ME). |
DXF : AutoDesk picture File. |
DXR2 : Dynamic eXtended Resolution 2 technology (Creative Labs DVD). |
DXTC : S3 Direct3D Texture Compression APIs (S3 Savage3D/2000). |
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EAX : Environmental Audio EXtensions (Creative Labs DirectSound3D Live! surround sound extensions). |
EBDA : Extended BIOS Data Area. |
EBIOS : Extended Basic Input/Output System. |
ECC : Error Correction Code. |
ECHS : Enhanced Cylinder/Head/Sector (hard drive > 1024 cylinders). |
ECP : Extended Capabilities Port. |
EDC : Error Detection Code. |
EDI : Electronic Data Interchange. |
EDO : Extended Data Out (DRAM). |
EDRAM : Enhanced Dynamic Random Access Memory. |
EECS : Enhanced Elliptical Correction System (Sony CRT). |
EEPROM : Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory. |
EGA : Extended Graphics Adapter. |
EIA : Electronics Industries Association |
EICA : Enhanced Intellight Cooler Architecture. |
EIDE : Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics (hard disk). |
EISA : Extended Industry Standard Architecture. |
EISCA : Enhanced Intelligent System Cooler Architecture (CPU heatsink). |
E-mail : Electronic mail. |
EMB : Extended Memory Block. |
EMBM : Environment Mapped Bump Mapping (Matrox G400 3D Video). |
EMI : ElectroMagnetical Interference. |
EMM : Expanded Memory Manager. |
EMM386 : Microsoft 386 Expanded Memory Manager (EMM386.EXE). |
EMS : Expanded Memory Specifications. |
EPA : Environmental Protection Agency. |
EPIC : Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (Intel/HP). |
EPP : Enhanced Parallel Port. |
EPROM : Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory. |
EPS : Encapsulated PostScript File. |
ESCD : Extended System Configuration Data (ROM BIOS) |
ESD : ElectroStatic Discharge. |
ESDI : Enhanced System Device Interface (hard disk). |
ESDRAM : Enhanced Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory. |
EULA : End User License Agreement. |
EUV : Extreme UltraViolet lithography (CPU). |
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FAST-20 : Fast SCSI-3 Parallel Interface standard. |
FAT : File Allocation Table. |
FAT16 : File Allocation Table 16-bit (MS-DOS). |
FAT32 : File Allocation Table 32-bit (Windows 95/98). |
FCBS : File Control Blocks. |
FC-AL : Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (Ultra Fast SCSI). |
FCC : Federal
Communications Commission (USA). |
FC-PGA : Flip Chip Pin Grid Array package (Intel Pentium III E CPU). |
FC-PH : Fibre Channel PHysical and signaling interface (SCSI-3). |
FD : Floppy Disk. |
FDC : Floppy Drive Controller. |
FDD : Floppy Disk Drive. |
FDDI : Fiber Distributed Data Interface. |
FED : Field Emission Display. |
FERAM : FerroElectric Dynamic Random Access Memory (Infineon/Toshiba). |
FIFO : First In First Out. |
FMD : Fluorescent Multilayer Disc (C3D 140 GB CD-ROM technology). |
FMV : Full Motion Video. |
FPD : Flat Panel Display. |
FPE : File Protection Error. |
FPM : Fast Page Mode (DRAM). |
fps : frames per second. |
FPTV : Front Projection TeleVision |
FPU : Floating Point Unit (coprocessor). |
FRAM : Ferroelectric Random Access Memory. |
Frame-buffer : 1st + 2nd dimensions/height + width/x + y axes memory (2D video). |
FSAA :Full Screen Anti-Aliasing edge smoothing (3D video). |
FSB : Front Side Bus (motherboard CPU to I/O bus). |
FTP : File Transfer Protocol. |
Full-Duplex : Two way modem communication protocol (echo-plex). |
FXT1 : Advanced Texture Compression technology (3Dfx). |
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GB : GigaByte (1 GB = 1,024 MegaBytes = 1,048,576 KiloBytes). |
GBps : GigaBytes per second. |
gbps : gigabits per second. |
GDI : Graphics Device Interface (Microsoft Windows). |
GEM : Ventura/GEM image file. |
GIF : Graphics Interchange Format (CompuServe). |
Glide : 3Dfx Voodoo family proprietary 3D APIs. |
G.Lite : ITU G.992.2 1.4 Mbps Digital Subscriber Line modem standard (ADSL). |
GM : General MIDI standard. |
GPF : General Protection Fault (Microsoft Windows). |
GMR : Giant MagnetoResistive effect (IBM hard drive). |
GPU : Graphics Processing Unit (NVidia GeForce/GeForce2 2D/3D). |
GTS : Giga Texel Shader (NVidia GeForce2 GTS 2D/3D). |
GUI : Graphical User Interface. |
GVIF : Gigabit Video InterFace (Sony LCD). |
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HAL : Hardware Abstraction Layer (Microsoft Direct3D virtual 3D video accelerator interface APIs). |
Half-Duplex : One way modem communication protocol (simplex or local-echo). |
HAVi : Home Audio Video interoperability (entertainment APIs). |
HD : Hard Disk. |
HDA : High reliability Hard Disk Assembly. |
HDC : Hard Drive Controller. |
HDD : Hard Disk Drive. |
HD-DVD : High Definition Digital Versatile Disk (future standard). |
HD-ROM : High Definition Read Only Media (Norsam Technology). |
HDSL : High bit rate Digital Subscriber Line modem. |
HDSS : Holographic Data Storage System (IBM). |
HDTV : High Definition TeleVision (new digital TV standard: 1200 lines). |
HDVD : High Definition Digital Video Disc (Sonic/Ravisent). |
HDVP : High Definition Video Processor (NVidia GeForce2 GTS). |
HEL : Hardware Emulation Layer (Microsoft Direct3D virtual 3D video rasterization device). |
HFC : Hybrid Fiber Coaxial cable system. |
HFS : Hierarchical File System (CD-ROM, MacOS). |
HGL : Hewlett Packard Graphics Language image file. |
HID : Human Interface Devices. |
HiFD : High density 200 MB Floppy Drive standard (Sony/Fuji). |
Hi-Fi : High Fidelity (audio/video). |
HIMEM : Microsoft HIgh/Extended MEMory Manager (HIMEM.SYS). |
HIPPI : HIgh Performance Parallel Interface (ANSI X3T9.3 standard). |
HMA : High Memory Area. |
HP : Hewlett Packard Corporation |
HPC : Handheld Personal Computer. |
HPFS : High Performance File System (OS/2). |
HSDRAM : High Speed Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory. |
HSR : Hidden Surface Removal 3D polygon rendering (NVidia NV20 + 3dfx Voodoo5/6). |
HTML : HyperText Markup Language (W3C). |
HTTP : HyperText Transfer Protocol. |
HVD : High Voltage Differential standard (SCSI-2). |
Hz : Hertz (clock speed). 1 Hz = 1 clock cycle. |
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IA-32 : Intel Architecture 32-bit (32-bit CPU). |
IA-64 : Intel Architecture 64-bit (high-end 64-bit CPU). |
IBM : International Business Machines Corporation |
IC : Interface Controller. |
ICD : Installable Client Driver (Microsoft 3D). |
ICMP : Internet Control Message Protocol. |
ICMPv6 : Internet Control Message Protocol version 6. |
ICO : ICOn graphic file (Microsoft Windows). |
ICS : Internet Connection Sharing. |
IDCT : Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (DVD decoding). |
IDE : Integrated Device (Drive) Electronics (hard disk). |
IE : Microsoft Internet Explorer |
IEEE : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. |
IEEE 1394 : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers FireWire peripheral devices high performance serial bus standard. |
IETF : Internet Engineering Task Force |
IFF : Electronic Arts Image File. |
IFSHLP.SYS : Installable File System HeLPer device driver (Microsoft Windows). |
IGMP : Internet Group Management Protocol. |
IMA : Interactive Music Architecture (Microsoft). |
IMAP : Internet Mail Access Protocol. |
IMAP4 : Internet Mail Access Protocol level 4. |
IMG : GEM Paint image file. |
InterNIC : Internet Network Information Center. |
I/O : Input/Output. |
ION : Integrated On-demand Network (Sprint FastBreak). |
IP : Internet Protocol. |
IPF : Invalid Page Fault (Microsoft Windows). |
IPv4 : Internet Protocol version 4 (32-bit). |
IPv6 : Internet Protocol version 6 (128-bit). |
IPX : Internetwork Packet EXchange (Novell Netware). |
IRC : Internet Relay Chat. |
IrDA : Infrared Data Association. |
IRQ : Interrupt ReQuest line. |
ISA : Industry Standard Architecture. |
ISDN : Integrated Services Digital Network. |
ISO : International Organization for Standardization |
ISO 9660 : International Standard LOgical CD-ROM format (High Sierra). |
ISP : Internet Service Provider. |
ITU : International Telecommunications Union |
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Java : Sun Microsystems programming language. |
JAR : Java ARchive file. |
JDK : Java Developers Kit. |
JEDEC : Joint Electronic Device Engineering Council. |
JFC : Java Foundation Classes. |
JIF : Joint Photographers Expert Group Image file. |
JPEG : Joint Photographers Expert Group Picture standard. |
JPG : Joint Photographers Expert Group Picture file. |
JVM : Java Virtual Machine. |
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:K56flex = Lucent/Rockwell 56 kbps analog modem transfer standard. |
KB : KiloByte (1 KB = 1,024 Bytes). |
KBps : KiloBytes per second. |
kbps : kilobits per second. |
KNI : Intel Katmai/Coppermine CPU New 70 MMX extensions. |
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