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29. Glossary

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. http://www.euro.dell.com/intl/euro/r+d/r+dnews/vectors/vect_2-1/v2-1_agp.htm

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

?? 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. Added to the newest generation of Intel Pentium Processors. It offers better audio and video quality

PCI

Pheripheral Component Interconnect. 32-bit bus designed by Intel. information can be found on http://www.pcisig.com and http://infoserver.ee.siue.edu/~jbutter/EE580_1.html.

RAID

Redudant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks. The basic idea of RAID is to combinr 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 type of redundant array Architectures; RAID-1 through RAID-5. A non-redudant array of disk drives is referred to as RAID-0.
http://www.uni-mainz.de/~neuffer/scsi/what_is_raid.html

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.
http://www.uni-mainz.de/~neuffer/scsi/what_is_scsi.html

SVGA

Super Video Graphics Adapter

UART

Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter

VGA

Video Graphics Adapter

VLB

VESA Local Bus

WORM

Write Once Read Many


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