Special Notices - Digital Equipment DIGITAL Personal Workstation Upgrade Manual

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Abbreviations
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Abbreviation
Kb
KB
LED
MAU
Mb
MB
MHz
MII
MLB
ns
NVRAM
PCI
RISC
ROM
SCSI
SDRAM
ZIF

Special Notices

This guide uses four kinds of notices to emphasize specific information.
WARNING: A WARNING indicates the presence of a hazard that can cause personal
injury.
CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates the presence of a hazard that can damage hardware or
corrupt software.
NOTE: A NOTE gives general information, such as compatibility with other products or
pointers to other information.
HINT: A HINT includes suggestions to make your computing tasks easier.
Meaning
A Kb suffix to a numerical value indicates size in kilobits (for example,
512 Kb). A kilobit equals 1024 bits.
A KB suffix to a numerical value indicates size in kilobytes (for
example, 640 KB). A kilobyte equals 1024 bytes.
Light-emitting diode.
Media adapter unit.
An Mb suffix to a numerical value indicates size in megabits (for
example, 10 Mb). A megabit equals 1,048,576 bits.
A MB suffix to a numerical value indicates size in megabytes (for
example, 550 MB). A megabyte equals 1,048,576 bytes.
Megahertz.
Media independent interface.
Main logic board.
Nanoseconds.
Nonvolatile random access memory.
Peripheral component interconnect.
Reduced instruction set computing.
Read only memory.
Small computer system interface.
Synchronous dynamic random access memory.
Zero Insertion Force
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