Nikon E2 Instruction Manual page 11

Description of acronyms
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NTSC .... .... ..... .. National Television System Committee , color television
telecasting specifications adopted mainly in Japan and
the U.S .
PAL ........... .... .. Phase Alternation Line , a color television system
adopted mainly by European countries and China.
JPEG ............... Joint Photographic Experts Group, a joint organization
of the ISO and the CCID promoting standard
specifications for a graphic file coded compression
system.
TIFF ...... ..... ..... .Tagged Image File Format, a high density bit-mapped
graphics format for scanned images.
PC Card ..........
Computer memory card complying with PCMC IAlJ EIDA
standards.
PCMCIA ...... .... Personal Computer Memory Card International
Association .
JEIDA ........ ...... Japan Electronic Industry Development Association
MS-DOS .. ........ Microsoft Disk Operating System , a sing le-user
operating system for personal computers .
SRAM card .. .. Static Random Access Memory card , an Image
Memory Card incorporating SRAM memory devices.
ATA card ........ A high-speed memory card complying with PC Card
(ATA) specifications .
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