Compaq 6500 Family manual Acronyms Meaning

Acronyms

Acronyms	Meaning
ACPI	Advanced Configuration Power Interface
APM	Advanced Power Management
BIOS	Basic Input/Output System
CMOS	Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
DIMM	Dual In-line Memory Module
DMA	Direct Memory Access
DVD	Digital Video/Versatile Disk
FAT	File Allocation Table
FDD	Floppy Disk Drive
HDD	Hard Disk Drive
IDE	Integrated Drive Electronics (internal hard disk drive interface)
FIR	Fast Infrared
IRQ	Interrupt Request
ISA	Industry Standard Architecture
KB	1Kilobyte=1024bytes
LCD	Liquid Crystal Display
LED	Light Emitting Diode
LiIon	Lithium Ion
MB	Megabyte = 1024KB
MS-DOS	Microsoft Disk Operating System
MIDI	Musical Instrument Digital Interface
NTFS	Windows NT File System
NTSC	National Television System Committee
O/S	Operation System
PC Card	Personal Computer Card (PCMCIA card)
POST	Power On Self-Test
ROM	Read Only Memory
SDRAM	Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SGRAM	Synchronous Graphics Random Access Memory
SO-DIMM	Small Outline Dual In-line Memory Module
TFT	Thin Film Transistor
USB	Universal Serial Bus
VGA	Video Graphics Array
XGA	Extended Graphics Adapter

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