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Acronyms and abbreviations – Gateway ALR 8300 User Manual

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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

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