see acronyms from 9-30-05
AGP Accelerated Graphics Port
ANSI American National Standards Institute
AT/ATX
Form factors
ATA Advanced Technologies Attachment
ATAPI ATA
BIOS Basic Input/ Output System
BNC*
A type of cable-jack
CMOS Continual Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
COM Component Object Model
CPS Characters Per Second
DMA Direct Memory Address
EEPROM Electrically-Erasable Programmable ROM
USB uses EEPROM
DVD Digital Video Disk
EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture
EPROM Erasable Programmable ROM
Type of non-volatile ROM
GUI Graphical User Interface
I/O DEVICE/HEX ADDRESS
IDE Integrated Drive Electronics
EIDE Enhanced IDE
IEEE 1284**
A type of FireWire connector
IRQ Interrupt Request
IRQ AVAILABILITY 1-15
LPT*
A type of parallel port
LBA Logical Block Addressing
MFM Modified Frequency Modulation
NIC Network Interface Card
NiMH Nickel Metal Hydride
Type of rechargeable battery similar to NiCad
OOI/OLGA
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
Expansion slot
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
A PC card for a laptop or some such device
PC-PGA2
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
PIO Parallel Input/ Ouput
NiCAD Nickel-Cadmium Battery
RAID Redundant Array of Independent/ Inexpensive Disks
RLL Run Length Limited codes
ROM Read-Only Memory
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
UPS Uninterruptable Power Supply
VRAM Video RAM
**IEEE stands for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, though this is unneccessary for you to know, as it does not give aid to your understanding of the term "IEEE 1284"