Toshiba Satellite 2450 user manual Abbreviations, Glossary-1

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Glossary

The terms in this glossary cover topics related to this manual. Alternate naming is included for reference.

LOSSARYG

Abbreviations

AC: alternating current

AGP: accelerated graphics port

ANSI: American National Standards Institute

APM: advanced power manager

ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange

BIOS: basic input output system

CD-ROM:Compact Disc-Read Only

Memory

CD-RW:Compact Disc-Read/Write

CMOS: complementarymetal-oxide semiconductor

CPU: central processing unit

CRT: cathode ray tube

DC: direct current

DDC: display data channel

DMA: direct memory access

DOS: disk operating system

DVD: digital versatile disc

ECP: extended capabilities port

FDD: floppy disk drive

FIR: fast infrared

HDD: hard disk drive

IDE: integrated drive electronics

I/O: input/output

IrDA: Infrared Data Association

IRQ: interrupt request

KB: kilobyte

LCD: liquid crystal display

LED: light emitting diode

LSI: large scale integration

MS-DOS: Microsoft Disk Operating System

OCR: optical character recognition (reader)

PCB: printed circuit board

PCI: peripheral component intercon- nect

RAM: random access memory

RGB: red, green, and blue

ROM: read only memory

RTC: real time clock

SCSI: small computer system interface

SIO: serial input/output

SXGA+: super extended graphics array plus

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