IBM 689912U Hardware Maintenance Manual - Page 457

Miscellaneous Information, Acronyms, Abbreviations and Terms

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Miscellaneous Information Acronyms, Abbreviations and Terms Term ACPA/A ADP AGP Alt ANSI ARTIC ASCII AT AVC BIOS bps BPS CCITT CCS CCSB CCSB CD CDPD CD-ROM CGA CRC CRT CSA CSD DASD DMA DRAM ECA ECC EGA ESD ESDI EEPROM EWS FRU GPIB GSA Ht IDE IC IEEE IEC IML IPL ISA ISO ISDN LAN LBA LTB LUN MAP Information Audio Capture and Playback Adapter Automatic Data Processing Advanced Graphics Port Alternate American National Standards Institute A Real Time Interface Coprocessor American National Standard Code for Interface Interchange Advanced Technology (as in AT Bus) Audio Video Connection Basic Input/Output System (Controls System Resources) Bits Per Second Bytes Per Second The International Telephone and Telegraph Consultative Committee Common Command Set Common Complete Status Block Configuration Control Sub Board Compact Disc Cellular Digital Packet Data CD Read Only Memory (stores data/audio) Color Graphics Adapter (See EGA, VGA, XGA) Cyclic Redundancy Check Cathode Ray Tube Canadian Standards Association Corrective Service Diskette Direct Access Storage Device (hard disk, diskette) Direct Memory Access Dynamic Random Access Memory Engineering Change Announcement Error Correction Code Enhanced Graphics Adapter Electrostatic Discharge Enhanced Small Device Interface Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory Energy Work Station Field Replaceable Unit (replaceable part) General Purpose Interface Bus (IEEE 348) General Services Administration Height Integrated Drive Electronics Integrated Circuit Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Electrotechnical Commission Initial Machine Load Initial Program Load Industry Standard Architecture International Organization for Standardization Integrated-Services Digital Network Local Area Network Local Block Address Local Transfer Bus Logical Unit Number (as in SCSI) Maintenance Analysis Procedure Reference Information 447

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Miscellaneous Information
Acronyms, Abbreviations and Terms
Term
Information
ACPA/A
Audio Capture and Playback Adapter
ADP
Automatic Data Processing
AGP
Advanced Graphics Port
Alt
Alternate
ANSI
American National Standards Institute
ARTIC
A Real Time Interface Coprocessor
ASCII
American National Standard Code for Interface
Interchange
AT
Advanced Technology (as in AT Bus)
AVC
Audio Video Connection
BIOS
Basic Input/Output System (Controls System
Resources)
bps
Bits Per Second
BPS
Bytes Per Second
CCITT
The International Telephone and Telegraph
Consultative Committee
CCS
Common Command Set
CCSB
Common Complete Status Block
CCSB
Configuration Control Sub Board
CD
Compact Disc
CDPD
Cellular Digital Packet Data
CD-ROM
CD Read Only Memory (stores data/audio)
CGA
Color Graphics Adapter (See EGA, VGA, XGA)
CRC
Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRT
Cathode Ray Tube
CSA
Canadian Standards Association
CSD
Corrective Service Diskette
DASD
Direct Access Storage Device (hard disk, diskette)
DMA
Direct Memory Access
DRAM
Dynamic Random Access Memory
ECA
Engineering Change Announcement
ECC
Error Correction Code
EGA
Enhanced Graphics Adapter
ESD
Electrostatic Discharge
ESDI
Enhanced Small Device Interface
EEPROM
Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only
Memory
EWS
Energy Work Station
FRU
Field Replaceable Unit (replaceable part)
GPIB
General Purpose Interface Bus (IEEE 348)
GSA
General Services Administration
Ht
Height
IDE
Integrated Drive Electronics
IC
Integrated Circuit
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEC
International Electrotechnical Commission
IML
Initial Machine Load
IPL
Initial Program Load
ISA
Industry Standard Architecture
ISO
International Organization for Standardization
ISDN
Integrated-Services Digital Network
LAN
Local Area Network
LBA
Local Block Address
LTB
Local Transfer Bus
LUN
Logical Unit Number (as in SCSI)
MAP
Maintenance Analysis Procedure
Reference Information
447