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Acronyms
Acronyms Meaning
ACPI Advanced Configuration Power Interface
APM Advanced Power Management
BIOS Basic Input/Output System
CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
DIMM Dual In-line Memory Module
DMA Direct Memory Access
DVD Digital Video/Versatile Disk
FAT File Allocation Table
FDD Floppy Disk Drive
HDD Hard Disk Drive
IDE Integrated Drive Electronics (internal hard disk drive interface)
FIR Fast Infrared
IRQ Interrupt Request
ISA Industry Standard Architecture
KB 1Kilobyte=1024bytes
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LED Light Emitting Diode
LiIon Lithium Ion
MB Megabyte = 1024KB
MS-DOS Microsoft Disk Operating System
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
NTFS Windows NT File System
NTSC National Television System Committee
O/S Operation System
PC Card Personal Computer Card (PCMCIA card)
POST Power On Self-Test
ROM Read Only Memory
SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SGRAM Synchronous Graphics Random Access Memory
SO-DIMM Small Outline Dual In-line Memory Module
TFT Thin Film Transistor
USB Universal Serial Bus
VGA Video Graphics Array
XGA Extended Graphics Adapter