IBM HANDBOOK 260 - Manual (Page 275)

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List of Abbreviations
ABI application binary
interface
AC alternating current
AIX Advanced Interactive
Executive
ANSI American National
Standards Institute
APAR authorized program
analysis report
AGP Accelerated Graphics
Port
ASCII American National
Standards Code for
Information
Interchange
BIST built-in self-test
BOS base operating system
CAE computer-aided
engineering
CEC central electronics
complex
CHRP Common Hardware
Reference Platform
CMOS complimentary metal
oxide semiconductor
CPU central processing unit
CRC cyclic redundancy
check
DC direct current
DDC display data channel
DIMM dual in-line memory
module
DMA direct memory access
DOS disk operating system
DRAM dynamic random
access memory
EC engineering change
ECC error checking and
correction
EEPROM electrically erasable
programmable read
only memory
EISA extended industry
standard architecture
ELA error log analysis
EPOW environmental and
power warning
FCP Fibre Channel Protocol
FDDI fiber distributed data
interface
FRU field replaceable unit
GB gigabytes
Hz hertz
HTTP Hypertext Transfer
Protocol
ID identification
IDE integrated device
electronics
IEEE Institute of Electrical
and Electronics
Engineers
I
2
C inter integrated-circuit
communications
I/O input/output
IP internetwork protocol
(OSI)
IPL initial program load
IrDA infrared data
association (which sets
standards for infrared
support including
protocols for data
interchange)