Digital Equipment Digital AlphaStation 200 Series Technical Information page 18

Preface
(continued)
ISA
I-stream
kbits
Kbytes
kHz
MAU
Mbits
MBytes
MHz
NVRAM
PCI
PLL
RAM
RAS
RISC
ROM
SCSI
SIMM
SIO
SRAM
TOY
VCO
ZIF
xviii
industry-standard architecture
instruction stream
1024 bits
1000 bytes for storage; 1024 bytes for
memory
kiloHertz, 1000 cycles per second
media adapter unit
1,048,576 bits
1,000,000 bytes for storage; 1,048,576
bytes for memory
megaHertz, 1,000,000 cycles per
second
nonvolatile RAM
peripheral component interconnect
phase-locked loop
random access memory
row address strobe
reduced instruction set computer
read-only memory
small computer system interconnect
single in-line memory module
System I/O chip, Intel 87378IB
PCI-ISA bridge chip or super I/O chip
(parallel port, SLU...) NCR 97332
static RAM
time-of-year clock chip
voltage-controlled oscillator
zero insertion force