- AGP
Accelerated Graphics Port. A bus interconnect mechanism
designed to improve performance of 3D graphics
applications. AGP is a dedicated bus from the graphics
subsystem to the core-logic chipset.
here
- ATAPI
AT Attachment Packet Interface. A new protocol for
controlling mass storage devices similar to SCSI
protocols. It builds on the ATA (AT Attachment) interface,
the official ANSI Standard name for the IDE interface
developed for hard disk drives. ATAPI is commonly used for
hard disks, CD-ROM drives, tape drives, and other
devices.
- ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
- CDDA
Compact Disk Digital Audio. Capability of
CD-ROM/Writer to read out audio tracks.
- DMA
Direct Memory Access
- EGA
Enhanced Graphics Adapter
- EIDE
Enhanced IDE
- EISA
Extended Industry System Architecture
- FDDI
Fiber Distributed Data Interface. High-speed ring
local area network.
- IDE
Integrated Drive Electronics. Each drive has a
built-in controller.
- ISA
Industry System Architecture
- ISDN
Integrated Services Digital Network
- MCA
MicroChannel Architecture
- MFM
Modified Frequency Modulation
- MMX
Multimedia Extensions. Extra instructions meant to speed
multimedia.
- PCI
Pheripheral Component Interconnect. 32-bit bus designed
by Intel. Information can be found
here.
- RAID
Redudant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks. The basic idea of
RAID is to combine multiple small, inexpensive disk
drives into an array of disk drives which yields
performance exceeding that of a single large expensive
drive. There are five types of redundant array
Architectures; RAID-1 through RAID-5. A non-redudant
array of disk drives is referred to as RAID-0. Some RAID
systems can mix formats.
(more info)
- PPA
Printing Performance Architecture. Protocol
developed by Hewlett Packard for their series of Deskjet
printers. In essence, the protocol moves the low-level
processing of the data to the host computer rather than
the printer. This allows for a low-cost printer with a
small amount of memory and computing power and a flexible
driver. However, this comes at the price of compatibility.
HP's decision was to develop drivers only for Windows 95
for this printer.
- RLL
Run Length Limited
- SCSI
Small Computer Systems Interface. A standerd interface
defined for all devices in a computer. It make it
possible to use a single adapter for all devices.
(more info)
- SVGA
Super Video Graphics Adapter
- UART
Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter
- USB
Universal Serial Bus.
- VGA
Video Graphics Adapter
- VLB
VESA Local Bus. Used in some 486 PC's.
- WORM
Write Once Read Many
