Technical Reference Guide

Compaq Deskpro EXS and Workstation 300 Personal Computers

Featuring the Intel Pentium 4 Processor

First Edition – December 2000

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1.4 COMMON ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

Table 1-1 lists the acronyms and abbreviations used in this guide.

Table 1–1. Acronyms and Abbreviations

Table 1-1.

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Acronym/Abbreviation Description
A ampere
AC alternating current
ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
A/D analog-to-digital
AGP Accelerated graphics port
API application programming interface
APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
APM advanced power management
AOL Alert-On-LAN™
ASIC application-specific integrated circuit
AT 1) attention (modem commands) 2) 286-based PC architec t ure
ATA AT attachment (IDE protocol)
ATAPI AT attachment w/packet interface extensions
AVI audio-video interleaved
AVGA Advanced VGA
AWG American Wire Gauge (specification)
BAT Basic assurance test
BCD binary-coded decimal
BIOS basic input/output system
bis second/new revision
BNC Bayonet Neill-Concelman (connector type)
bps or b/s bits per second
BSP Bootstrap processor
BTO Built t o order
CAS colum n addres s strobe
CD compact disk
CD-ROM com pact disk read-only memory
CDS compact disk s ystem
CGA color graphics adapter
Ch Channel, chapter
cm centimeter
CMC cache/memory controller
CMOS complimentary metal-oxide semiconductor (configuration memory)
Cntlr controller
Cntrl control
codec compressor/decompressor
CPQ Compaq
CPU central processing unit
CRIMM Continuity (blank) RIMM
CRT cathode ray t ube
CSM Compaq system management / Compaq server managem ent
DAC digital-to-analog converter
DC direct current
DCH DOS compatibility hole
DDC Display Data Channel
DF direction flag

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