Technical Reference Guide
Compaq Deskpro EN Series of Personal Computers Desktop and Minitower Form Factors
Third Edition - September 1998
1-5Table 1-1. Acronyms and Abbreviations
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Acronym/Abbreviation Description
lb pound
LAN local area network
LCD liquid crystal display
LED light-emitting diode
LIF low insertion force (socket)
LSI large scale integration
LSb / LSB least significant bit / least significant byte
LUN logical unit (SCSI)
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

n

variable parameter/value
NIC network interfac e card/controller
NiCad nickel cadmium
NiMH nickel-metal hydride
NMI non-maskable interrupt
ns nanosecond
NT nested task flag
NTSC National Television St andards Committee
NVRAM non-volatile random access memory
OEM original equipment manufacturer
OS operating system
PAL 1. programmable array logic 2. phase altering line
PC personal computer
PCI peripheral c omponent interconnect
PCM pulse code modulation
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PF parity flag
PIN personal ident ification number
PIO Programmed I/O
POST power-on self tes t
PROM programmable read-only memory
PTR pointer
RAM random access memory
RAS row addres s strobe
rcvr receiver
RF resume flag
RGB red/green/blue (monitor input)
RH Relative humidity
RMS root mean square
ROM read-only memory
RPM revolutions per minute
RTC real time cloc k
R/W read/write
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