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List of Abbreviations
ABI
application binary
interface
AC
alternating current
AIX
Advanced Interactive
Executive
ANSI
American National
Standards Institute
APAR
authorized program
analysis report
AGP
Accelerated Graphics
Port
ASCII
American National
Standards Code for
Information
Interchange
BIST
built-in self-test
BOS
base operating system
CAE
computer-aided
engineering
CEC
central electronics
complex
CHRP
Common Hardware
Reference Platform
CMOS
complimentary metal
oxide semiconductor
CPU
central processing unit
CRC
cyclic redundancy
check
DC
direct current
DDC
display data channel
DIMM
dual in-line memory
module
DMA
direct memory access
DOS
disk operating system
DRAM
dynamic random
access memory
EC
engineering change
ECC
error checking and
correction
EEPROM
electrically erasable
programmable read
only memory
EISA
extended industry
standard architecture
ELA
error log analysis
EPOW
environmental and
power warning
FCP
Fibre Channel Protocol
FDDI
fiber distributed data
interface
FRU
field replaceable unit
GB
gigabytes
Hz
hertz
HTTP
Hypertext Transfer
Protocol
ID
identification
IDE
integrated device
electronics
IEEE
Institute of Electrical
and Electronics
Engineers
I
2
C
inter integrated-circuit
communications
I/O
input/output
IP
internetwork protocol
(OSI)
IPL
initial program load
IrDA
infrared data
association (which sets
standards for infrared
support including
protocols for data
interchange)