W W3C = World Wide Web Consortium. WAIS = Wide Area Information Server. WAN = Wide Area Network. WAR = Wide Aspect Ratio display. WBEM = Web Based Enterprise Management Initiative. WDM = Win32 Driver Model. WfM = Wired for Management. WfWG = Microsoft Windows for WorkGroups 3.1x. Win16 = Microsoft Windows 16-bit OS. Win2000 = Microsoft Windows 2000 (formerly NT 5.0). Win2K = Microsoft Windows 2K (2000). Win31 = Microsoft Windows 3.1x. Win32 = Microsoft Windows 32-bit OS. Win32s = Microsoft Windows 32-bit extensions for Windows/WfWG 3.1x 16-bit. Win95 = Microsoft Windows 95 (4.0x. xxxx). Win98 = Microsoft Windows 98 (4.1x. xxxx). WinME = Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (4.9x. xxxx). WinNT = Microsoft Windows NT 3. xx/4.0x . WIP = Web Interoperability Pledge . WMF = Microsoft Windows MetaFile. WORM = Write Once Read Many . WOSA = Windows Open Services Architecture. WPE = Windows Protection Error . WPG = WordPerfect Graphic file. WRAM = Windows Random Access Memory. WTX = Workstation Advanced Technology EXtended . WWIF = World Wide InterFace. WWW = World Wide Web. WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get. X x2 = 3COM/US Robotics 56 kbps analog modem transfer standard. X86 = Intel X86 CPU . X87 = Intel X87 FPU . Xeon = Intel Pentium II/III Xeon CPU (80686). XHTML = EXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (W3C). XLL = EXtensible Link Language (W3C). XML = EXtensible Markup Language (W3C). XMM = EXtended Memory Manager. XMS = EXtended Memory Specifications. XSL = EXtensible Style Language (W3C). XT = EXtended Technology . XVGA = EXtended Video Graphics Array. Y Y2K = Year 2000. Z ZAK = Zero Administration Kit for Windows NT workstations. ZAW = Zero Administration initiative for Windows. Z-buffer = Third (3rd) dimension/depth/z axis memory (3D video). ZIF = Zero Insertion Force .

F FAST-20 = Fast SCSI-3 Parallel Interface standard. FAT = File Allocation Table. FAT16 = File Allocation Table 16-bit . FAT32 = File Allocation Table 32-bit (Windows 95/98). FCBS = File Control Blocks. FC-AL = Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop . FCC = Federal Communications Commission . FC-PGA = Flip Chip Pin Grid Array package . FC-PH = Fibre Channel PHysical and signaling interface (SCSI-3). FD = Floppy Disk. FDC = Floppy Drive Controller. FDD = Floppy Disk Drive. FDDI = Fiber Distributed Data Interface. FED = Field Emission Display. FERAM = FerroElectric Dynamic Random Access Memory . FIFO = First In First Out. FMD = Fluorescent Multilayer Disc (C3D 140 GB CD-ROM technology). FMV = Full Motion Video. FPD = Flat Panel Display. FPE = File Protection Error. FPM = Fast Page Mode . fps = frames per second. FPTV = Front Projection TeleVision. FPU = Floating Point Unit . FRAM = Ferroelectric Random Access Memory. Frame-buffer = 1st + 2nd dimensions/height + width/x + y axes memory (2D video). FSAA = Full Screen Anti-Aliasing edge smoothing (3D video). FSB = Front Side Bus . FTP = File Transfer Protocol. Full-Duplex = Two way modem communication protocol . FXT1 = Advanced Texture Compression technology (3Dfx). G GB = GigaByte (1 GB = 1,024 MegaBytes = 1,048,576 KiloBytes). GBps = GigaBytes per second. gbps = gigabits per second. GDI = Graphics Device Interface . GEM = Ventura/GEM image file. GIF = Graphics Interchange Format . Glide = 3Dfx Voodoo family proprietary 3D APIs. G. Lite = ITU G.992.2 1.4 Mbps Digital Subscriber Line modem standard . GM = General MIDI standard. GPF = General Protection Fault . GMR = Giant MagnetoResistive effect . GPU = Graphics Processing Unit (NVidia GeForce/GeForce2 2D/3D). GTS = Giga Texel Shader (NVidia GeForce2 GTS 2D/3D). GUI = Graphical User Interface. GVIF = Gigabit Video InterFace . H HAL = Hardware Abstraction Layer (Microsoft Direct3D virtual 3D video accelerator interface APIs). Half-Duplex = One way modem communication protocol . HAVi = Home Audio Video interoperability . HD = Hard Disk. HDA = High reliability Hard Disk Assembly. HDC = Hard Drive Controller. HDD = Hard Disk Drive. HD-DVD = High Definition Digital Versatile Disk . HD-ROM = High Definition Read Only Media . HDSL = High bit rate Digital Subscriber Line modem. HDSS = Holographic Data Storage System . HDTV = High Definition TeleVision (new digital TV standard: 1200 lines). HDVD = High Definition Digital Video Disc . HDVP = High Definition Video Processor (NVidia GeForce2 GTS). HEL = Hardware Emulation Layer (Microsoft Direct3D virtual 3D video rasterization device). HFC = Hybrid Fiber Coaxial cable system. HFS = Hierarchical File System . HGL = Hewlett Packard Graphics Language image file. HID = Human Interface Devices. HiFD = High density 200 MB Floppy Drive standard . Hi-Fi = High Fidelity . HIMEM = Microsoft HIgh/Extended MEMory Manager . HIPPI = HIgh Performance Parallel Interface (ANSI X3T9.3 standard). HMA = High Memory Area. HP = Hewlett Packard Corporation. HPC = Handheld Personal Computer. HPFS = High Performance File System (OS/2). HSDRAM = High Speed Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory. HSR = Hidden Surface Removal 3D polygon rendering (NVidia NV20 + 3dfx Voodoo5/6). HTML = HyperText Markup Language (W3C). HTTP = HyperText Transfer Protocol. HVD = High Voltage Differential standard (SCSI-2). Hz = Hertz . 1 Hz = 1 clock cycle.

S S3TC = S3 Texture Compression architecture (S3 Savage3D/2000). SACD = Super Audio Compact Disc . SBK = EMU Sound Font BanK v1.0 . SCSI = Small Computers System Interface standard. SCSI-1 = Small Computers System Interface 1 specifications. SCSI-2 = Small Computers System Interface 2 specifications. SCSI-3 = Small Computers System Interface 3 specifications. SDDS = Sony Dynamic Digital Sound (8 channel theatre surround sound standard). SDK = Software Developers Kit. SDRAM = Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory. SDS = Satellite Data Service. SDSL = Symmetrical Digital Subscriber Line modem. SDX = Storage Data Acceleration . SECAM = SEquential Couleur Avec Mémoire (French TV standard: 819 lines). SECC = Single Edge Contact Cartridge . SECC2 = Single Edge Contact Cartridge 2 . SEL = Software Emulation Layer (Microsoft Direct3D). SEPP = Single Edge Processor Package . Serial ATA = Ultra Serial ATA 1500 v1.0 Hard Disk Interface standard (1.5 Gb/sec). SET = Secure Electronic Transaction standard. SF2 = EMU Sound Font Bank v2.0 . SFN = Short File Name (8.3 = MS-DOS 16-bit). SGI = Silicon Graphics Incorporated. SGML = Standard Generalized Markup Language (W3C). SGRAM = Synchronous Graphics Random Access Memory. SHDSL = Single pair High bit rate Digital Subscriber Line modem. SIMD = Single Instruction Multiple Data . SIMM = Single In-line Memory Module. SLC = Subscriber Line Charge. SLDRAM = Synchronous Link Dynamic Random Access Memory . SL-DRAM = Synchronous Layout Dynamic Random Access Memory . SLI = Scan Line Interleave technology (3Dfx Voodoo2). SLIP = Serial Line Internet Protocol. SLM = Spatial Light Modulator. SMART = Self Monitoring Analysis Reporting Technology standard. SMIL = Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (W3C). SMP = Symmetrical MultiProcessing standard. SMPTE = Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. SMTP = Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. S/NR= Signal to Noise Ratio. SO-DIMM = Small Outline Dual Inline Memory Module connector. SPD = Serial Presence Detection . S/PDIF = Sony/Philips Digital Interchange Format. SPI-2 = SCSI Parallel Interface 2 standard (SCSI-3). SPI-3 = SCSI Parallel Interface 3 standard (SCSI-3). SPP = Standard Parallel Port. SQL = Structured Query Language. SRAM = Static Random Access Memory. sRGB = 32-bit standard Red Green Blue color encoding . sRGB64 = 64-bit standard Red Green Blue double-precision color encoding . SSA = Serial Storage Architecture bus/interface. SSE = Streaming SIMD Extensions . SSL = Secure Sockets Layer. SSR = Super Scalar Rendering (3D video). STA = SCSI Trade Association. STD/VR = STanDard Voltage Regulator . STM = Scanning Tunneling Microscope. SVGA = Super Video Graphics Array standard. SX = X86 Intel CPU without FPU (386/SX, 486/SX). Sync SRAM = Synchronous burst Static Random Access Memory (CPU L2 cache). T TAPI= Telephony Application Programming Interface. TB = TeraByte (1 TB = 1,024 GigaBytes = 1,048,576 MegaBytes). T-Buffer = Multiple Frame Buffer rendering engine (3Dfx 3D video). TCL = Transform, Clipping & Lighting (ATI 3D video). TCO = Total Cost of Ownership. TCP = Transmission Control Protocol. TCP/IP = Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. TEC = ThermoElectric Cooler . Texel = Bilinear TEXtured pixEL (3D video). TFT = Thin Film Transistor . TFTP = Trivial File Transfer Protocol. TGA = TrueVision Graphic file . THD = Total Harmonic Distortion. THX = LucasFilm Home/Cinema Theatre Hi-Fi Dolby Digital Surround audio/video standard (RE: George Lucas' first movie: "THX 1138"). TIFF = Tagged Image File Format . T&L = Transform & Lighting (3D video). TMM = Terabit Molecular Memory technology . TNT = TwiN Texel processing engine (NVidia RIVA TNT 2D/3D). TNT2 = TwiN Texel 2 processing engine (NVidia RIVA TNT2 2D/3D). TPU = Texture Processing Unit (3Dfx Voodoo/Voodoo2/Voodoo3). TSR = Terminate and Stay Resident program/device/driver. TTF = True Type Font. TTL = Time To Live . TWI = True Web Integration . U UAE = Unrecoverable Application Error. UART = Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter. U-ATA = Ultra Advanced Technology Attachment . UCE = Unsolicited Commercial Email. UDF = Universal Disk Format . UDMA = Ultra Direct Memory Access . UDMA/33 = Ultra DMA/Ultra ATA 33.33 MB/second tranfer rate . UDMA/66 = Ultra DMA/Ultra ATA 66.66 MB/second tranfer rate . UDMA/100 = Ultra DMA/Ultra ATA 100 MB/second tranfer rate . UDP = User Datagram Protocol. UDSP = Uniprocessor Digital Signal Processor Drive Electronics based architecture. UHF = Ultra High Frequency. Ultra160/m SCSI = Ultra3 SCSI standard (160 MB/s burst transfer rate). Ultra2b SCSI = Ultra2 SCSI standard (80 MB/s burst transfer rate). Ultra DMA = Ultra Direct Memory Access . Ultra SCSI = Ultra1 SCSI standard (40 MB/s burst transfer rate). UMA = Upper Memory Area. UMB = Upper Memory Block. UMR = Upper Memory Region. UNC = Uniform Naming Convention. UNIX = MultiUser Network Operating System. UPnP = Universal Plug and Play . UPS = Uninterruptible Power Supply. URI = Uniform Resource Identifier. URL = Uniform Resource Locator. URM = Universal Retention Mechanism (Slot 1 CPU). USB = Universal Serial Bus standard. USB2 = Universal Serial Bus version 2.0 standard. USENET = USEr NETwork . USR = U. S. Robotics (3Com modem brand). UUE = Uniform Resource Locator UNIX Encoded. UUENCODE = Unix to Unix Encoding. V V.90 = ITU PCM 56 Kbps analog modem transfer standard. V.92 = ITU PCM 56 Kbps analog modem transfer standard. VAR = Value Added Reseller. VAT = Virtual Allocation Table . VBE = VESA BIOS Extensions. VBI = Vertical Blanking Interval. VCM = Virtual Channel Memory. VCP = Video Cassette Player. VCPI = Virtual Control Program Interface. VCR = Video Cassette Recorder. VDSL = Variable Digital Subscriber Line modem. VESA = Video Electronics Standards Association. VFAT = Virtual File Allocation Table . VFIR = Very Fast InfraRed protocol . VfW = Video for Windows. VGA = Video Graphics Array standard. VHD = Very High Density connector standard . VHF = Very High Frequency. VIS = Visual Image Size. VLB = VESA Local Bus . VLM = Very Large Memory addressing . VLSI = Very Large Scale Integration. VMM = Virtual Memory Manager. VoIP = Voice over Internet protocol. VPN = Virtual Private Network. VR (1) = Virtual Reality. VR (2) = Voltage Regulator . VRE = Voltage Regulator Enhanced (MMX/SSE/KNI/3DNow! CPU dual voltage). VRAM = Video Random Access Memory. VRM = Voltage Regulator Module. VRML = Virtual Reality Modeling Language. VSA-100 = Voodoo Scalable Architecture (3Dfx Napalm 3D chipset). VSM = Virtual Storage Management . VXD = Virtual eXtended device Driver .

286 = Intel 80286 processor. 2D = Two Dimensional: x and y axes. 2K = 2000. 386 = Intel 80386 processor. 386MAX = Qualitas 386 Expanded Memory Manager (386MAX. SYS). 3D = Three Dimensional: x, y and z axes. 3dfx = 3d Graphics Interactive (Voodoo family 3D chipsets). 3DNow! = AMD K6/K7/Athlon/Duron CPU multimedia extensions. 3DRAM = 3D Dynamic Random Access Memory. 486 = Intel 80486 processor. 586 = Intel 80586 processor . 686 = Intel 80686 processor . 86 = Intel 80X86 central processing unit . 87 = Intel 80X87 floating point unit . A A3D = Aureal 3D surround sound technology. AA = Anti-Aliasing edge smoothing technology (3D video). AAAS = American Association for the Advancement of Science. AAF = Advanced Authoring format . AC = Alternating Current. AC-3 = Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound standard (5 + 1 = 6 channels). ACPI = Advanced Configuration Power Interface. ADC = Analog to Digital Converter. ADPCM = Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation. ADSL = Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line modem. ADVD = Audio Digital Versatile Disc. AFR = Alternate Frame Rendering . AFM = Atomic Force Microscope. AGP = Accelerated Graphics Port technology standard . AGP-1x = Accelerated Graphics Port technology 1st generation standard: 66 MB/sec bandwidth . AGP-2x = Accelerated Graphics Port technology 2nd generation standard using sidebands: 133 MB/sec bandwidth . AGP-4x = Accelerated Graphics Port technology 3nd generation standard using fast writes: 266 MB/sec bandwidth . AGRAS = AntiGlare AntiReflection AntiStatic screen treatment . AI = Artificial Intelligence. AIFF = Audio Interchange File Format . AIT = Advanced Intelligent Tape . ALDC = Adaptive Lossless Data Compression . AMD = Advanced Micro Devices Incorporated. AMI = American Megatrends Incorporated. AMR = Audio/Modem Riser slot (Intel Pentium III 8281x chipsets). ANI = Microsoft Windows ANImated cursor graphic file. ANSI = American National Standards Institute. AOL = America OnLine Incorporated. API = Application Programming Interface. APIC = Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller. APM = Advanced Power Management. ARAG = AntiReflection AntiGlare screen treatment . ARAS = AntiReflection AntiStatic screen treatment . ARP = Address Resolution Protocol. ASC = Active Signal Correction technology . ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASF = Advanced Streaming Format . ASIC = Application Specific Integrated Circuit. ASP (1) = Advanced Sound Processor . ASP (2) = Application Service Provider. ASPI = Advanced SCSI Programming Interface. ASVD = Analog Simultaneous Voice and Data. Async SRAM = Asynchronous Static Random Access Memory (CPU L2 cache). AT = Advanced Technology . ATA = Advanced Technology Attachment . ATA-4 = Ultra ATA/Ultra DMA 33.33 MB/second tranfer rate . ATA-6 = Ultra ATA/Ultra DMA 66.66 MB/second tranfer rate . ATA-8 = Ultra ATA/Ultra DMA 100 MB/second tranfer rate . ATAPI = Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface. Athlon = AMD Athlon K7 CPU. ATM (1) = Adobe Type Manager. ATM (2) = Asynchronous Transfer Mode . ATSC = Advanced Television Systems Committee. ATV = Advanced TeleVision . ATX = Advanced Technology EXtended . AUTOEXEC. BAT = AUTOmatically EXECuted BATch file. AVI = Advanced Video Interleave . AWR = Active Wide Range playback system . AXCEL216 = Packard Bell AXCEL216 386/SX 25 MHz . B b = bit : unit of digital information: 1 bit = 0 or 1. B = Byte : unit of digital data: 1 Byte = 8 bits. BASIC = Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. BAT = MS-DOS ASCII BATch program file. Baud = Modem line signaling high/low shifts/events per second. BBS = Bulletin Board System. BDA = BIOS Data Area. BEDO = Burst Extended Data Out . BGA = Ball Grid Array (242 pin Intel CPU). BIF = Binary Image Format file. BIOS = Basic Input Output System. BMP = RGB/RLE encoded Microsoft Windows BitMap Picture file. bpp = bits per pixel. Bps = Bytes per second. bps = bits per second. BSB = Back Side Bus . BSOD = Blue Screen Of Death . bus = Binary data gateway between hardware modules: CPU, RAM, I/O etc. C CAB = CABinet compression format standard . CAD = Computer Aided Design. CADD = Computer Aided Design and Drafting. CAS = Column Access Strobe. CAV = Constant Angular Velocity . CCITT = Commité Consultatif International du Télégraphe et Téléphonie . CD = Compact Disk. CD-DA = Compact Disk Digital Audio. CDFS = CD-ROM File System . CD-I = Compact Disc Interactive. CDR = CorelDRAW! image file. CDRAM = Cache Dynamic Random Access Memory. CD-R = Compact Disk Recorder. CD-RAM = Compact Disk Rewritable Access Media. CD-ROM = Compact Disk Read Only Media. CD-ROM/XA = Compact Disk Read Only Media EXtended Architecture . CD-RW = Compact Disk ReWritable. CDSL = Consumer Digital Subscriber Line modem technology . Celeron = Intel Pentium II/III Celeron CPU (80686). CERT = Computer Emergency Response Team. CGA = Color Graphics Adapter. CGI (1) = Computer Generated Image. CGI (2) = Common Gateway Interface. CGM = Computer Graphics Metafile. CHAP = Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol. CHS = Cylinder/Head/Sector . CIAC = Computer Incident Advisory Capability team. CIFS = Common Internet File System. CISC = Complex Instruction Set Computing . CL = Creative Labs Limited. CLP = Microsoft Windows CLiPboard Bitmap file. CLV = Constant Linear Velocity . CMOS = Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor manufacturing process. CMOS 7S = CMOS 7S manufacturing process . CMOS-SOS = CMOS Silicon On Sapphire manufacturing process. CMP = Chip MultiProcessing (more than 1 CPU per chip). CMS = ColorSync Color Management System . CNR = Communications/Network Riser slot (Intel Pentium III 8281x chipsets). COBOL = COmmon Business Oriented Language. CODEC = Digital video COmpressor and DECompressor . COM (1) = Serial COMmunication Port. COM (2) = Component Object Model . CON = CONsole . CONFIG. SYS = CONFIGuration SYStem file. cps = characters per second. CPU = Central Processing Unit . CRC = Cyclical Redundancy Check. CRT = Cathode Ray Tube. CS = CompuServe. CSLIP = Compressed Serial Line Internet Protocol. CSS = Cascading Style Sheets HTML specifications (W3C). CSS1 = Cascading Style Sheets mechanism level 1 (W3C). CSS2 = Cascading Style Sheets mechanism level 2 (W3C). CUR = Microsoft Windows static CURsor graphic file. CUT = Dr. Halo picture file. -

I IA-32 = Intel Architecture 32-bit (32-bit CPU). IA-64 = Intel Architecture 64-bit (high-end 64-bit CPU). IBM = International Business Machines Corporation. IC = Interface Controller. ICD = Installable Client Driver (Microsoft 3D). ICMP = Internet Control Message Protocol. ICMPv6 = Internet Control Message Protocol version 6. ICO = ICOn graphic file . ICS = Internet Connection Sharing. IDCT = Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform . IDE = Integrated Device Electronics . IE = Microsoft Internet Explorer. IEEE = Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. IEEE 1394 = Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers FireWire peripheral devices high performance serial bus standard. IETF = Internet Engineering Task Force. IFF = Electronic Arts Image File. IFSHLP. SYS = Installable File System HeLPer device driver . IGMP = Internet Group Management Protocol. IMA = Interactive Music Architecture . IMAP = Internet Mail Access Protocol. IMAP4 = Internet Mail Access Protocol level 4. IMG = GEM Paint image file. InterNIC = Internet Network Information Center. I/O = Input/Output. ION = Integrated On-demand Network . IP = Internet Protocol. IPF = Invalid Page Fault . IPv4 = Internet Protocol version 4 (32-bit). IPv6 = Internet Protocol version 6 (128-bit). IPX = Internetwork Packet EXchange . IRC = Internet Relay Chat. IrDA = Infrared Data Association. IRQ = Interrupt ReQuest line. ISA = Industry Standard Architecture. ISDN = Integrated Services Digital Network. ISO = International Organization for Standardization. ISO 9660 = International Standard LOgical CD-ROM format . ISP = Internet Service Provider. ITU = International Telecommunications Union. J Java = Sun Microsystems programming language. JAR = Java ARchive file. JDK = Java Developers Kit. JEDEC = Joint Electronic Device Engineering Council. JFC = Java Foundation Classes. JIF = Joint Photographers Expert Group Image file. JPEG = Joint Photographers Expert Group Picture standard. JPG = Joint Photographers Expert Group Picture file. JVM = Java Virtual Machine. K K56flex = Lucent/Rockwell 56 kbps analog modem transfer standard. KB = KiloByte (1 KB = 1,024 Bytes). KBps = KiloBytes per second. kbps = kilobits per second. KNI = Intel Katmai/Coppermine CPU New 70 MMX extensions.

D D3D = DirectX 3D APIs (Microsoft Windows 9x/2000/ME). DAC = Digital to Analog Converter. DAT = Digital Audio Tape. dB = deciBel (10 dB = 1 Bel). DBS = Digital Broadcasting System. DC = Direct Current. DCE = Data Communications Equipment . DDC = Display Data Channel. DDE = Dynamic Data Exchange. DDMA = Distributed Direct Memory Access standard. DDR-SDRAM = Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory. DDSS = Dolby Digital AC-3 5.1 Surround Sound standard (5 + 1 = 6 channels). DEK = Data Encryption Key. DES = Data Encryption Standard. DHCP = Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. DHTML = Dynamic HyperText Markup Language (W3C). DIB (1) = RGB/RLE encoded Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap. DIB (2) = Dual Independent Bus architecture . DIG = Digital Imaging Group. DIMM = Dual In-line Memory Module. DIN = Deutsches Institut für Normung . DIP = Dual In-line Package. DIVX = DIgital Video eXpress . DLL = Dynamic Link Library. DLP = Digital Light Processing technology, also DMD . DLS = DownLoadable Sounds standard . DMA = Direct Memory Access. DMD = Digital Micromirror Device, also DLP . DME = Direct Memory Execution (Intel I-740). DMF = Distribution Media Format: high density floppy disk . DMI = Desktop Management Interface. DMTF = Desktop Management Task Force. DNA = Distributed interNet Applications architecture (Windows 98). DNS = Domain Naming System. DOCSIS = ITU J.112 Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification. DOF = Depth Of Field (3D video). DOM = Document Object Model standard (W3C). DOS = Disk Operating System. DPI = Dots Per Inch. DPLSS = Dolby Pro Logic Surround Sound standard (5 channels). DPMA = Dynamic Power Management Architecture . DPMI = DOS Protected Mode Interface. DPMS = VESA Display Power Management Signaling standard. DRAM = Dynamic Random Access Memory. DR-DOS = Lineo Disk Operating System. Drive-TIP = Drive Temperature Indicator Processor . DRP = Distribution and Replication Protocol. DRW = Micrografx DRaW image file. DS3D = DirectSound 3D APIs (Microsoft Windows 9x/2000/ME). DSC = Digital Servo Control . DS/DD = Double-Sided Double-Density (floppy disk standard: 720 KB). DS/HD = Double-Sided High-Density (floppy disk standard: 1.44 MB). DSL = Digital Subscriber Line modem. DSP (1) = Digital Signal Processor. DSP (2) = Delivery Service Partner . DSS (1) = Digital Satellite System. DSS (2) = Digital Signature Standard certificate. DSVD = Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data. DTD = Document Type Definition. DTE = Data Terminal Equipment . DTP = DeskTop Publishing. DTR = Data Transfer Rate . DTS = Digital Theatre Surround (3D audio). DTV (1) = DeskTop Video. DTV (2) = Digital TeleVision. DUN = Dial-Up Networking (Microsoft Windows 95/98). DVD = Digital Versatile Disc. DVD-2 = Second generation DVD drive. DVD-R = Digital Versatile Disk Recordable. DVD-RAM = Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable Access Media. DVD-ROM = Digital Versatile Disc Read Only Media. DVD+RW = Digital Versatile Disk ReWritable . DVI = Digital Video Interactive . DX = X86 Intel CPU with FPU (386/DX, 486/DX). DX3D = DirectX 3D APIs (Microsoft Windows 9x/2000/ME). DXF = AutoDesk picture File. DXR2 = Dynamic eXtended Resolution 2 technology . DXTC = S3 Direct3D Texture Compression APIs (S3 Savage3D/2000). E EAX = Environmental Audio EXtensions (Creative Labs DirectSound3D Live! surround sound extensions). EBDA = Extended BIOS Data Area. EBIOS = Extended Basic Input/Output System. ECC = Error Correction Code. ECHS = Enhanced Cylinder/Head/Sector (hard drive > 1024 cylinders). ECP = Extended Capabilities Port. EDC = Error Detection Code. EDI = Electronic Data Interchange. EDO = Extended Data Out . EDRAM = Enhanced Dynamic Random Access Memory. EECS = Enhanced Elliptical Correction System . EEPROM = Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory. EGA = Extended Graphics Adapter. EIA = Electronics Industries Association. EICA = Enhanced Intellight Cooler Architecture. EIDE = Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics . EISA = Extended Industry Standard Architecture. EISCA = Enhanced Intelligent System Cooler Architecture . E-mail = Electronic mail. EMB = Extended Memory Block. EMBM = Environment Mapped Bump Mapping (Matrox G400 3D Video). EMI = ElectroMagnetical Interference. EMM = Expanded Memory Manager. EMM386 = Microsoft 386 Expanded Memory Manager (EMM386. EXE). EMS = Expanded Memory Specifications. EPA = Environmental Protection Agency. EPIC = Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing . EPP = Enhanced Parallel Port. EPROM = Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory. EPS = Encapsulated PostScript File. ESCD = Extended System Configuration Data . ESD = ElectroStatic Discharge. ESDI = Enhanced System Device Interface . ESDRAM = Enhanced Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory. EULA = End User License Agreement. EUV = Extreme UltraViolet lithography .

P P II = Intel Pentium II CPU (80686 Klamath/Deschutes/Xeon). P III = Intel Pentium III CPU (80686 Katmai/Coppermine/Xeon). P5 = Intel Pentium/Pentium Pro CPU (80586). P6 = Intel Pentium II/III CPU (80686). PAL = Phase Alternate Line (European TV standard: 625 lines). PAP = Password Authentication Protocol. PBC = Pipeline Burst Cache. PBM = Portable BitMap UNIX picture file. PBSRAM = Pipeline Burst Static Random Access Memory (CPU L2 cache). PC = Personal Computer. PC99 = Intel/Microsoft PC 1999 System Design Guide. PCB = Printed Circuit Board. PCD = Kodak Photo CD image file. PCI = Peripheral Component Interconnect bus architecture: 32-bit, 33/66 MHz . PCI 2.1 = Peripheral Component Interconnect 2.1 standard: 32-bit, 33/66 MHz . PCI 2.2 = Peripheral Component Interconnect 2.2 standard: 32-bit, 33/66/133 MHz . PCI-X = Peripheral Component Interconnect eXtended bus architecture: 64-bit, 133 MHz . PCL = Printer Control Language. PCM = Pulse Code Modulation. PCMCIA = Personal Computer Memory Card International Association. PCS = Personal Communications Service. PCX = Zsoft PC Paintbrush Picture file. PDA = Personal Digital Assistant. PDF = Portable Document Format file . PDP = Parallel Data Processing (Intel I-740). pel = Picture ELement: RGB 3 dot pattern . Also pixel. Pentium = Intel Pentium CPU (80586). Pentium Pro = Intel Pentium Pro CPU (80586). Pentium II = Intel Pentium II CPU (80686 Klamath/Deschutes/Xeon). Pentium III = Intel Pentium III CPU (80686 Katmai/Coppermine/Xeon). PERL = Practical Extraction and Report Language. PFPT = Pure Flat Picture Tube. PGM = Portable GrayMap UNIX picture file. PIC (1) = Programmable Interrupt Controller. PIC (2) = Lotus PICtor/PC Paint picture file. PIF = Program Information File . PIM = Personal Information Manager. PING = Packet InterNet Groper. PIO = Programmed Input/Output. pixel = PIcture ELement: RGB 3 dot pattern . Also pel. PLEDM = Phase-state Low Electron Drive Memory . PLGA = Plastic Land Grid Array . PLL = Phase Locked Loop . PMTU = Path Maximum Transmission Unit . PNG = Portable Network Graphics file. PnP = Plug and Play standard. POP (1) = Post Office Protocol. PoP (2) = Point of Presence. POP3 = Post Office Protocol 3 standard. POST = Power On Self Test . POTS = Plain Old Telephone Service. PPGA = Plastic Pin Grid Array (370 pin Intel CPU). PPI = Precise Pixel Interpolation (Intel I-740). PPM = Portable PixelMap UNIX picture file. PPP = Point to Point Protocol. PPTP = Point to Point Tunneling Protocol. PRI = Primary Rate Interface. PRML = Partial Response Maximum Likelihood . PRN = PRiNter port. PS/2 = IBM Personal System/2. PSD = RGB/indexed PhotoShop image file . PSTN = Public Switched Telephone Network. PVR = Personal Video Recorder . Q QBE = Query By Example. QDR-SDRAM = Quad Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory. QEMM = Quarterdeck Systems 386 Expanded Memory Manager (QEMM386. SYS). QOS = Quality Of Service. R RAID = Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. RAM = Random Access Memory. RAMDAC = Random Access Memory Digital to Analog Converter. RARP = Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. RAS (1) = Sun Microsystems Raster image file. RAS (2) = Row Access Strobe. RAS (3) = Remote Access Service (Microsoft Windows NT/2000). RAVE = Rendering Acceleration Virtual Engine . RAW = Unencoded pixel data image file. RDF = Resource Description Framework . RDRAM = Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory. REG = REGistry text/ASCII file (Microsoft Windows 9x/NT/2000/ME). Registry = Microsoft Windows 9x/NT/2000/ME Registry database. RegEdit = Microsoft Windows 9x/NT/2000/ME Registry Editor . RegEdt32 = Microsoft Windows NT/2000 Registry Editor (REGEDT32. EXE). RFC = Request for Comments. RFI = Radio Frequency Interference. RGB = Red Green Blue picture encoding. RIMM = Rambus Inline Memory Module. RISC = Reduced Instruction Set Computing . RIVA = Real Time Interactive Video and Animation (NVidia 3D). RLE = CompuServe/Microsoft Windows Run Length Encoded graphic file. RM386 = Helix Software 386 Expanded Memory Manager (RM386. EXE). ROM = Read Only Memory. RPC = Remote Procedure Calls. rpm = Rotations Per Minute. RPTV = Rear Projection TeleVision. RSA = Public Key Encryption algorithms . RTC = Real Time Clock . RTF = Rich Text Format . RWIN = Receive WINdow .

L L1 = Level 1 cache . L2 = Level 2 cache . L2TP = Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol. L3 = Level 3 cache . LAN = Local Area Network. LAPM = Link Access Protocol for Modems. LBA = Logical Block Addressing . LBM = DeLuxe Paint BitMap picture file. LCD = Liquid Crystal Display. LDAP = Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. LDIF = Lightweight Data Interchange Format . LED = Light Emitting Diode. LEP = Light Emitting Polymers technology . LFB = Linear Frame Buffer (2D video). LFN = Long File Name (256.8 = Win32 32-bit). LFO = Low Frequency Oscillator. LH = LoadHigh. LIM = Lotus/Intel/Microsoft expanded/extended memory specifications. LIMAD = LInear MAgnetic Drive speaker technology . LMDS = Local Multipoint Distribution Service. LPC = Low Pin Count interface specification . LPT = Line PrinTer. LTO = Linear Tape-Open technology . LVD = Low Voltage Differential (SCSI-2). M MAC = MAC Paint picture file. MAPI = Messaging Application Program Interface. MB = MegaByte (1 MB = 1,024 KiloBytes = 1,048,576 bytes). MBps = MegaBytes per second. mbps = megabits per second. MBR = Master Boot Record . MCA = Multilink Channel Aggregation technology (Microsoft Windows 98). MCD = Mini Client Driver (Microsoft 3D). MCGA = MonoChrome Graphics Adapter. MCI = Media Control Interface. MDA = Modular Digital Architecture. MDI = Multiple Document Interface. MDRAM = Multibank Dynamic Random Access Memory . MGA = Monochrome Graphics Adapter. MHz = MegaHertz (1 MHz = 1,000 KHz = 1,000,000 Hz). MIDI = Musical Instrument Digital Interface. MIME = Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. MIP = Multum In Parvum texture mapping. MIPS = Millions of Instructions per Second. MLA = Modern Languages Association. MLPPP = MultiLink Point to Point Protocol. MMA = MIDI Manufacturer's Association. MMVF = MultiMedia Video Format . MMX = Intel Pentium/Pentium Pro CPU MultiMedia eXtensions. MMX2 = Intel Pentium II CPU MultiMedia eXtensions 2nd generation. MO = MagnetoOptical. modem = MOdulator/DEModulator . MOV = QuickTime MOVie file . MP3 = MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 compression/format standard. MPC = Multimedia Personal Computer. MPEG = Motion Picture Expert Group. MPEG-1 = Motion Picture Expert Group 1 video compression standard. MPEG-2 = Motion Picture Expert Group 2 video compression standard. MPG = Motion Picture Expert Group compressed image file standard. MPGA = Micro Pin Grid Array (370 pin Intel CPU). MR = MagnetoResistive head technology . MRAM = Magnetic Random Access Memory . MRX = MagnetoResistive EXtended head technology . μs = Microsecond (1/1,000,000 = 1 millionth of a second). MS = MicroSoft Corporation. MS-DOS = MicroSoft Disk Operating System. MSCDEX = MicroSoft Compact Disc EXtensions device driver . MSD = MicroSoft Diagnostics . MSKB = MicroSoft Knowledge Base. MSP = MicroSoft Paint picture file. MSRP = Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price. MSS = Maximum Segment Size . MTBF = Mean Time Between Failures. MTT = MultiTransaction Timer . MTU = Maximum Transmission Unit . MUD = MultiUser Domain. MVA = Multidomain Vertical Alignment technology . N NC = Network Computer. NDIS = Network Driver Interface Specification layer. NetRoom = Helix Software 386 Expanded Memory Manager (RM386. EXE). NFS = Network File System. NGI = Next Generation Internet foundation. NIC (1) = Network Interface Card. NIC (2) = Networked Information Center. NIST = National Institute of Standards and Technology. NLP = Natural Language Processing. NNTP = Network News Transfer Protocol. NOS = Network Operating System. ns = Nanosecond (1/1,000,000,000 = 1 billionth of a second). NSR = NVidia Shading Rasterizer (GeForce2 GTS chipset). NTFS = Windows NT File System standard (32-bit). NTSC = National Television Systems Committee (USA TV standard: 525 lines). NVRAM = Non Volatile Random Access Memory. O OAW = Optically Assisted Winchester technology . OCR = Optical Character Recognition. ODBC = Open DataBase Connectivity. OEM = Original Equipment Manufacturer. OGL = OpenGL . OLE = Object Linking and Embedding. OLGA = Organic Land Grid Array . OOB = Out Of Band. OpenGL = Silicon Graphics Open standard Graphical Language (32-bit 3D graphics architecture layout). OpenGVS = Open Gemini Visual System 3D APIs standard. OPS = Open Profiling Standard. OS = Operating System. OS/2 = IBM Operating System/2. OSD = Open Software Distribution. OSR1 = OEM Service Release 1 (Microsoft Windows 95 version 4.00.950 a: 1st release, upgraded with SP1). Retail + OEM. OSR2 = OEM Service Release 2 (Microsoft Windows 95 version 4.00.950 B/C: 2nd release). OEM only.