Glossary Of Terms And Abbreviations - IBM 7785 Hardware Maintenance

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Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
ac. alternating current
AUI. Attachment Unit lnterface
BIOS . Basic lnput/Output System
BTUH .
British Thermal Unit per
Hour
CCITT. Centrai Committee for lnter-
national Telephony and Telegraphy
CD-ROM .
Compact Disk - Read-
Only Memory
IEEE.
lnstitute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers
lnternational Standards Organization
kg kilogram LAN Locai -Area Network
lb pound (weight) ppb parts per
billion m meter (length) Mb Mega-
byte MHz MegaHertz
~tg/m 3
micro-
grams per cubie meter mm
millimeter
NetBIOS. Network Basic
lnput/Output System
NVRAM. Non-Volatile Random
CMOS.
Complimentary Metai-Oxide Access Memory
Semiconductor
CRT.
Cathode Ray Tube
CSMAICD .
Carrier Sense Multiple
Access with Collision Detection
dc.
direct current
DCP. Diagnostic Control Program
ECMA.
European Computer Man-
ufacturers Association
EPO. Emergency Power-Off
FCC. Federai Communication Com-
mission
Hz. Hertz
PC.
Personal Computer
POST. Power-On Self-Test
RAM .
Random -Access Memory
ROM .
Read-Only Memory
SBS .
Service Bay System
SCSI. Small Computer System
lnterface
V ac . Volts alternating current
V dc. Volts direct current
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