Introduction

 

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Acronyms and Abbreviations

 

 

Acronym or

 

Abbreviation

Description

 

 

EISA

extended ISA

 

 

EPP

enhanced parallel port

 

 

EIDE

enhanced IDE

 

 

ESCD

Extended System Configuration Data (format)

 

 

EV

Environmental Variable (data)

 

 

ExCA

Exchangeable Card Architecture

 

 

FIFO

first in/first out

 

 

FL

flag (register)

 

 

FM

frequency modulation

 

 

FPM

fast page mode (RAM type)

 

 

FPU

Floating point unit (numeric or math coprocessor)

 

 

FPS

Frames per second

 

 

ft

Foot/feet

 

 

GB

gigabyte

 

 

GND

ground

 

 

GPIO

general purpose I/O

 

 

GPOC

general purpose open-collector

 

 

GART

Graphics address re-mapping table

 

 

GUI

graphic user interface

 

 

h

hexadecimal

 

 

HDD

hard disk drive

 

 

HW

hardware

 

 

hex

hexadecimal

 

 

Hz

Hertz (cycles-per-second)

 

 

IDE

integrated drive element

 

 

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

 

 

IF

interrupt flag

 

 

I/F

interface

 

 

IGC

integrated graphics controller

 

 

in

inch

 

 

INT

interrupt

 

 

I/O

input/output

 

 

IPL

initial program loader

 

 

IrDA

Infrared Data Association

 

 

IRQ

interrupt request

 

 

 

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