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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Table 1-1. Acronyms and Abbreviations Continued
Acronym/Abbreviation Description
lb pound
LAN local area network
LCD liquid crystal display
LED light-emitting diode
LIF low insertion force (socket)
LPC Low pin count
LSI large scale integration
LSb / LSB least significant bit / least significant byte
LUN logical unit (SCSI)
m Meter
MCH Memory controller hub
MMX multimedia extensions
MPEG Motion Picture Experts Group
ms millisecond
MSb / MSB most significant bit / most significant byte
mux multiplex
MVA motion video acceleration
MVW motion video window
nvariable parameter/value
NIC network interface card/cont rol l er
NiMH nickel-metal hydride
NMI non-maskable interrupt
NRZI Non-return-to-zero inverted
ns nanosecond
NT nested task flag
NTSC National Television Standards Com mittee
NVRAM non-volatile random access memory
OS operating system
PAL 1. programmable array logic 2. phase altering line
PC Internet Device
PCA Printed circuit ass em bly
PCI peripheral com ponent interconnect
PCM pulse code modulation
PCMCIA Internet Device Memory Card International Association
PF parity flag
PIN personal identi f ication number
PIO Programmed I/O
POST power-on self test
PROM programmable read-only memory
PTR pointer
RAM random access memory
RAS row address strobe
rcvr receiver
RDRAM (Direct) Rambus DRAM
RF resume flag
RGB red/green/blue (monitor input)
RH Relative humidity
RIMM RDRAM inline m emory module
RMS root mean square
ROM read-only memory
RPM revolutions per minute
RTC real time clock
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