
Compact Disk | |
CFM | Cubic Feet per Minute |
CHRP | See Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP). |
See Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP). | |
CHRP Spec | See Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP). |
CISC | |
| is designed to sequentially run |
| which require several clock cycles, that perform complex tasks and |
| thereby simplify programming. |
CODEC | COder/DECoder |
Color Difference (CD) | The signals of |
| The Green signals |
Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP) | |
| A specification published by Apple, IBM, and Motorola which |
| defines the devices, interfaces, and data formats that make up a |
| |
Composite Video Signal (CVS/CVBS) | |
| Signal that carries video picture information for color, brightness |
| and synchronizing signals for both horizontal and vertical scans. |
| Sometimes referred to as “Baseband Video”. |
cpi | characters per inch |
cpl | characters per line |
CPU | Central Processing Unit. The master computer unit in a system. |
DCE | Data |
DLL | Dynamic Link Library. A set of functions that are linked to the |
| referencing program at the time it is loaded into memory. |
DMA | Direct Memory Access. A method by which a device may read or |
| write to memory directly without processor intervention. DMA is |
| typically used by block I/O devices. |
DOS | Disk Operating System |
dpi | dots per inch |
G L O S S A R Y
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