Technical Reference Guide
Compaq iPAQ Family of Internet Devices
First Edition - March 2000
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 ins ertion force (socket)
LPC Low pin count
LSI large scale integration
LSb / LSB least significant bit / least significant byte
LUN logical unit (SCSI)
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 acceler ation
MVW motion video window

n

variable parameter/value
NIC networ k interface card/controller
NiCad nickel cadmium
NiMH nickel-metal hydride
NMI non-maskable interrupt
NRZI Non-return-to-zero inverted
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 Internet Devic e
PCI peripheral component interconnect
PCM pulse code modulation
PCMCIA Internet Device Memory Card International Association
PF parity flag
PIN personal identification number
PIO Progr ammed I/O
POST power-on self tes t
PROM programmable read-only memory
PTR pointer
RAM random access memory
RAS row address strobe
rcvr receiver
RF resume flag
RGB red/green/blue (monitor input)
RH Relative humidity
RIMM RDRAM inline memory module
RMS root mean square
ROM read-only memory
RPM revolutions per minute
RTC real time clock
R/W read/write
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