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GLOSSARY Glossary The terms in this glossary cover the topics discussed in this manual. Alternate naming is included for reference. Abbreviations AC: alternating current AGP: accelerated graphics port ANSI: American National Standards Institute APM: advanced power manager ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange HDD: hard disk drive IDE: integrated drive electronics I/O: input/output IrDA: Infrared Data Association IRQ: interrupt request KB: kilobyte LCD: liquid crystal display LED: light emitting diode BIOS: basic input output system LSI: large scale integration CMOS: complementary metal-oxide MDA: monochrome display adapter semiconductor MPEG: moving picture coding CPU: central processing unit experts group CRT: cathode ray tube DC: direct current DDC: display data channel DOS: disk operating system DMA: direct memory access DRAM: dynamic random access memory DSVD: Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data DVD: Digital Versatile Disc DVI: Digital Visual Interface ECP: extended capabilities port EGA: enhanced graphics adapter FDD: floppy disk drive FIR: fast infrared MS-DOS: Microsoft Disk Operating System OCR: optical character recognition (reader) PCB: printed circuit board PCI: peripheral component interconnect PCMCIA: Personal Computer Memory Card International Association RAM: random access memory RGB: red, green, and blue ROM: read only memory RTC: real time clock. SCSI: small computer system interface SIO: serial input/output Glossary-1