Miscellaneous Information; Acronyms, Abbreviations, And Terms - IBM 2179 Hardware Maintenance Manual

Miscellaneous information

Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Terms

Term Information
ACPA/A Audio Capture and Playback Adapter
ADP Automatic Data Processing
AGP Advanced Graphics Port
Alt Alternate
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ARTIC A Real Time Interface Coprocessor
ASCII American National Standard Code for Interface Interchange
AT Advanced Technology (refer to AT Bus)
AVC Audio Video Connection
BIOS Basic Input/Output System
bps Bits Per Second
BPS Bytes Per Second
CCITT The International Telephone and Telegraph Consultative Committee
CCS Common Command Set
CCSB Common Complete Status Block
CCSB Configuration Control Sub Board
CD Compact Disc
CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data
CD-ROM CD Read-Only Memory
CGA Color Graphics Adapter (See EGA)
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CSA Canadian Standards Association
CSD Corrective Service Diskette
DASD Direct Access Storage Device (hard disk)
DMA Direct Memory Access
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
ECA Engineering Change Announcement
ECC Error Correction Code
EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter
ESD Electrostatic Discharge
ESDI Enhanced Small Device Interface
EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EWS Energy Work Station
FRU Field Replaceable Unit (replaceable part)
GPIB General Purpose Interface Bus (IEEE 348)
GSA General Services Administration
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