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Glossary, Abbreviations – Toshiba 6100 User Manual

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LOSSARY

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Glossary

The terms in this glossary cover the topics discussed in this manual. Alternate
naming is included for reference.

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

CMOS: complementary metal-oxide
semiconductor

CPU: central processing unit

CRT: cathode ray tube

DC: direct current

DDC: display data channel

DOS: disk operating system

DMA: direct memory access

DRAM: dynamic random access
memory

DSVD: Digital Simultaneous Voice
and Data

DVD: Digital Versatile Disc

DVI: Digital Visual Interface

ECP: extended capabilities port

EGA: enhanced graphics adapter

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

MDA: monochrome display adapter

MPEG: moving picture coding experts
group

MS-DOS: Microsoft Disk Operating
System

OCR: optical character recognition
(reader)

PCB: printed circuit board

PCI: peripheral component intercon-
nect

PCMCIA: Personal Computer
Memory Card International Association

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