IBM 3746-900 Installation And Maintenance Manual page 257

Glossary
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 (as in AT Bus)
AVC Audio Video Connection
BIOS Basic Input/Output System (Controls
System Resources)
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 (stores
data/audio)
CGA Color Graphics Adapter (See EGA, VGA,
XGA)
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CSA Canadian Standards Association
CSD Corrective Service Diskette
DASD Direct Access Storage Device (hard disk,
diskette)
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
Ht Height
IDE Integrated Drive Electronics
IC Integrated Circuit
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IML Initial Machine Load
IPL Initial Program Load
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Term Information
ISA Industry Standard Architecture
ISO International Organization for
Standardization
ISDN Integrated-Services Digital Network
LAN Local Area Network
LBA Local Block Address
LTB Local Transfer Bus
LUN Logical Unit Number (as in SCSI)
MAP Maintenance Analysis Procedure
MCGA Modified Color Graphics Adapter
(320 x 200 x 256)
MCA Micro Channel Architecture (bus structure)
MHz Mega Hertz (million cycles per second)
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MM Multimedia
N/A Not Available or Not Applicable
NDD National Distribution Division
NDIS Network Driver Interface Specification
NMI Non-Maskable Interrupt
NSC National Support Center
NVRAM Non Volatile Random Access Memory
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
PCI Peripheral component interconnect
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card
International Association
POS Programmable Option Select
PUN Physical Unit Number (as in SCSI)
RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
(disk array models)
RAM Random Access Memory (read/write)
RGB Red Green Blue (as in monitors)
RIPL Remote Initial Program Load
ROM Read Only Memory
SASD Sequential Access Storage Device (Tape)
SCB Subsystem Control Block
SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface
SCSI ID SCSI Identification Number
(assigned device number)
SPD Software Product Description
SR Service Representative
SRAM Static Random Access Memory
SVGA Super Video Graphics Array
STN Super Twisted Nematic
T/A NDD Technical Advisor
(See your Marketing Representative)
TDD Telecommunications Device for the Deaf
TFT Thin-Film Transistor
TPF ThinkPad File
TSR Terminate and Stay Resident
UL Underwriters Laboratory
VCA Video Capture Adapter
VESA Video Electronics Standards Association
VGA Video Graphics Array (640x480x16)
VPD Vital Product Data
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