ASM86FAQ - Abkürzungen
Häufig verwendete Abkürzungen:
Am* American Megatrends Prozessoren ANSI American National Standard Institute API Application Programming Interface APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller APM Advanced Power Management ARLL Advanced Run-Length Limited ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange AT Advanced Technology ATA Advanced Technology Adapter ATAPI Advanced Technology Adapter Packet Interface ATC Attribute Controller AVATAR Advanced Video Attribute Terminal Assembler & Recreator
BASIC Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code BCD Binary coded decimal BIOS Basic Input/Output System BIT Binary digit BPB BIOS Parameter Block BPI Bits per Inch BPS Bits per Second BTB Branch Target Buffer
CAD Computer Aided Design CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing CAPI Communicating Application Programming Interface CAS Configuration Address Space (PCI) Communicating Application Specification (API) CASAM Configuration Address Space Access Mechanism CD Compact Disc CDROM Compact Disc Read Only Memory CDWORM Compact Disc Write Once Read Many CGA Color/Graphics Adapter CGI Common Gateway Interface CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Silicon/Semiconductor CNC Computerized Numeric Control CPI Characters per Inch CPL Current Privilege Level CPS Characters per Second CPU Central Processing Unit CRC Cyclical Redundancy Check CRT Cathode Ray Tube CRTC Cathode Ray Tube Controller Cx* Cyrix Prozessoren
DAC Digital/Analog Converter DGIS Direct Graphics Interface Standard DIP Dual Inline Package DLL Dynamic Link Library DMA Direct Memory Access DOS Disk Operating System DPI Dots per Inch DPL Descriptor Privilege Level DPMI DOS Protected Mode Interface DPMS DOS Protected Mode Services DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory DTA Disk Transfer Area DTP Desktop Publishing
ECC Error Correction Code EDO Extended Data Out EEPROM Electronical Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter EIDE Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics EISA Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture EMS Expanded Memory Specification EOF End of File EOI End of Interrupt EOT End of Text EPROM Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory ESDI Enhanced Small Device Interface EV86 Enhanced Virtual 86 Mode
FAQ Frequently asked questions FAT File Allocation Table FCB File Control Block FDC Floppy Disk Controller FM Frequency Modulation FOSSIL Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Layer FPU Floating Point Unit FTP File Transfer Protocol
GDT Global Descriptor Table GUS Gravis Ultrasound
HGC Hercules Graphics Card HMA High Memory Area HPFS High Performance File System HTML Hypertext Markup Language HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
i* Intel Prozessoren IC Integrated Circuit IDE Integrated Drive Electronics (Hardware) Integrated Development Environment (Programmierung) IDT Interrupt Descriptor Table IFS Installable File System IOCTL Input/Output Control IOPL Input/Output Privilege Level IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange IRC Internet Relay Chat IRQ Interrupt Request ISA Industry Standard Architecture ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network ISR Interrupt Service Routine
JFT Job File Table
LAN Local Area Network LCD Liquid Crystal Display LDT Local Descriptor Table LED Light Emitting Diode LFBM Linear Frame Buffering Mode LIM Lotus/Intel/Microsoft EMS-Spezifikation LOL List of Lists LPT Line Printer LQ Letter Quality LSB Least significant bit
M1 Cyrix 6x86 M1SC Cyrix 5x86 M5 Cyrix Cx486S/D M6 Cyrix Cx486DX M7 Cyrix 486DX2 M8 Cyrix 486DX4 MCA Microchannel Architecture MCB Memory Control Block MCGA Multi Color Graphics Adapter MDA Monochrome Display Adapter MFLOPS Million Floating Point Operations per Second MFM Modified Frequency Modulation MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface MIPS Million Instruction per Second MMX Multimedia Extensions MSB Most significant bit MSR Model Specific Register MSW Machine Status Word MTBF Mean Time between Failures
NCB Network Control Block NDIS Network Driver Interface Specification NLQ Near Letter Quality NMI Non Maskable Interrupt NPX Numerical Processor Extension NTBA Network Termination Base Adapter NTFS New Technology File System NVRAM Non Volatile Random Access Memory
OCR Optical Character Recognition ODI Open Datalink Interface OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer OSTA Optical Storage Technology Association
P24C Intel i486 P24T Intel Pentium Overdrive (Socket 3 (5.0V)) P24CT Intel Pentium Overdrive (Socket 3 (3.3V)) P5 Intel Pentium (60/66) P54C Intel Pentium (75/90/100) P54CS Intel Pentium (120/133) P54CSQ Intel Pentium (120+) P6 Intel PentiumPro PCI Peripherial Component Interconnect PIC Programmable Interrupt Controller PIO Parallel Input/Output PIT Programmable Interval Timer PM Protected Mode PoP Point of Presence POP Post Office Protocol POST Power-On Self-Test PPP Point-to-Point Protocol PSP Program Segment Prefix
RAM Random Access Memory RGB Red-Green-Blue RLL Run-Length Limited RM Real Address Mode ROM Read Only Memory RPL Requestor Privilege Level RTC Real Time Clock RTL Runtime Library
SB Soundblaster (Creative) SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface SDA Swappable Data Area SEOI Specific End Of Interrupt SFT System File Table SIM Single Inline Module SIP Single Inline Package SLIP Serial Line Interface Protocol SMI System Managment Interrupt SMM System Management Mode SMRAM System Managment Random Access Memory SQL Structured Query Language SRAM Static Random Access Memory SVGA Super Video Graphics Array
TLB Translation Lookaside Buffer TOM Top of Memory TPI Tracks per Inch TPA Transient Program Area TS Timer Sequencer TSR Terminate and stay resident TSS Task State Segment TTY Teletype
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter UMB Upper Memory Block URL Uniform Resource Locator
V86 Virtual 86 Mode VBE VESA BIOS Extension VBE/AI VESA BIOS Extension / Audio Interface VCPI Virtual Control Program Interface VDS Virtual DMA Specification VESA Video Electronics Standards Association VFAT Virtual File Allocation Table (?) VGA Video Graphics Array VRML Virtual Reality Modeling Language
WAIS Wide Area Information System WWW World Wide Web
XGA Extended Graphics Array XMS Extended Memory Specification