HP (Hewlett-Packard) MAY21J8412 Personal Computer User Manual


 
Technical Reference Guide www.hp.com 1-5
Introduction
EIDE enhanced IDE
eSATA external SATA
ESCD Extended System Configuration Data (format)
EV Environmental Variable (data)
ExCA Exchangeable Card Architecture
FDI Flexible Display Interface
FIFO first in/first out
FL flag (register)
FM frequency modulation
FPM fast page mode (RAM type)
FPU Floating point unit (numeric or math coprocessor)
FPS Frames per second
ft Foot/feet
GB gigabyte
GMCH Graphics/memory controller hub
GND ground
GPIO general purpose I/O
GPOC general purpose open-collector
GART Graphics address re-mapping table
GUI graphic user interface
hhexadecimal
HDD hard disk drive
HW hardware
hex hexadecimal
Hz Hertz (cycles-per-second)
ICH I/O controller hub
IDE integrated drive element
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IF interrupt flag
I/F interface
IGC integrated graphics controller
in inch
INT interrupt
I/O input/output
IOPS Input/output Operations Per Second
Table 1-1 (Continued)
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Acronym or
Abbreviation Description