Gateway E-5250 - Manual (Page 35)

26 E-5250 User’s Guide
Acronyms and Abbreviations
ASIC - Application specific integrated circuit
BIOS - Basic input/output system
CMOS - Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
DIMM - Dual inline memory module
DMI - Desktop management interface
DRAM - Dynamic random access memory
ECC - Error correcting code
FAT - File allocation table
GB - Gigabyte
IDE - Integrated drive electronics
IRQ - Interrupt request line
ISA - Industry standard architecture
LAN - Local area network
LED - Light-emitting diode
MB - Megabyte
Mbps - Megabits per second
MIDI - Musical instrument digital interface
MHz - Megahertz
MS-DOS - Microsoft disk operating system
NTFS - NT file system
POST - Power-on self-test
PS/2 - Personal System/2
RAM - Random-access memory