Toshiba A60 User Manual

  Glossary-1

The terms in this glossary cover the topics discussed in this manual. Alternate
naming is included for reference.

AC:  alternating current

AGP: accelerated graphics port

ANSI:  American National Standards
Institute

APM: advanced power manager

ASCII:  American Standard Code for
Information Interchange

BIOS:  basic input output system

CMOS:  complementary metal-oxide
semiconductor

CPU:  central processing unit

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

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

LSI:  large scale integration

MDA:  monochrome display adapter

MPEG: moving picture coding experts
group

MS-DOS: Microsoft Disk Operating
System

OCR:  optical character recognition
(reader)

PCB:  printed circuit board

PCI: peripheral component intercon-
nect

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