Acronyms and Measurements
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Product Manual
Acronym
Meaning
4DD
4 direct drive
ANSI
American National Standards Institute
ATF
automatic track finding
BAT
block access table
BIOS
basic input output system
BOM
beginning of media
BOT
beginning of tape
BPI
bits per inch
CD
compact disc
CMOS
complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
CSA
Canadian Standard Association
DAT
digital audio tape
DCLZ
Data Compression Lempel-Ziv
DDS
digital data storage
DDS-DC
digital data storage data compression
DDS-2
digital data storage-2
DMA
direct memory access
ECC
error-correction code
ECMA
European Computer Manufacturers Association
EEPROM
electronically erasable, programmable read-only memory
EOD
end of data
EOM
end of media
EOT
end of tape
FCC
Federal Communications Commission
FTPI
flux transitions per inch
GIT
group information table
IEC
International Electrotechnical Commission
IPS
inches per second
LED
light emitting diode
LSI
large scale integration
LZ1
Lempel-Ziv 1 (algorithm)
LZ2
Lempel-Ziv 2 (algorithm)
LZW
Lempel-Ziv-Welch (algorithm)
MFM
modified frequency modulation
MTBF
mean time between failures
MTTR
mean time to repair
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