Digital Equipment Digital AlphaStation 400 Series, User Information

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Preface
Abbreviations
This guide uses the following abbreviations:
Abbreviation Meaning
ARC Advanced RISC Computing (the Windows NT Console).
CD Compact disc.
CD-ROM Compact disc read only memory.
CPU Central processing unit.
DMA Direct memory access.
DRAM Dynamic random access memory.
DROM Diagnostic read only memory.
FAT File allocation table.
FDC Floppy disk controller.
flashROM Electrically erasable, rewriteable, nonvolatile memory.
GB A GB suffix to a numerical value indicates size in gigabytes
(for example, 1 GB). A gigabyte equals 1,073,741,824 bytes.
IRQ Interrupt request.
ISA Industry-standard architecture.
Kb A Kb suffix to a numerical value indicates size in kilobits (for
example, 512 Kb). A kilobit equals 1024 bits.
KB A KB suffix to a numerical value indicates size in kilobytes (for
example, 640 KB). A kilobyte equals 1024 bytes.
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