Chapter 1 Introduction
Compaq Deskpro EN Series of Personal Computers
Desktop and Minitower Form Factors
Third Edition – September 1998
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Table 1-1. Acronyms and Abbreviations
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Acronym/Abbreviation Description
SCSI small computer system interface
SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic RAM
SEC Single Edge-Connector
SECAM sequential colour avec memoire (sequential color with memory)
SF sign flag
SGRAM Synchronous Graphics RAM
SIMM single in-line memory module
SIT system information table
SMART Self Monitor Analysis Report Technology
SMI system management interrupt
SMM system management mode
SMRAM system management RAM
SPD serial presence detect
SPP standard parallel port
SRAM static RAM
STN super twist pneumatic
SVGA super VGA
SW software
TAD telephone answering device
TAM telephone answering machine
TCP tape carrier package
TF trap flag
TFT thin-film transistor
TIA Telecommunications Information Administration
TPE twisted pair ethernet
TPI track per inch
TTl transistor-transistor logic
TV television
TX transmit
UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter
UDMA Ultra DMA
us /
µ
s microsecond
USB Universal Serial Bus
UTP unshielded twisted pair
Vvolt
VESA Video Electronic Standards Association
VGA video graphics adapter
vib vibrato
VLSI very large scale integration
VRAM Video RAM
Wwatt
WOL Wake on LAN
WRAM Windows RAM
ZF zero flag
ZIF zero insertion force (socket)