IBM 689912U - IntelliStation Z - Pro 6899, Hardware Maintenance Manual

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Miscellaneous Information
Acronyms, Abbreviations and Terms
Term Information
ACPA/A Audio Capture and Playback Adapter
ADP Automatic Data Processing
AGP Advanced Graphics Port
Alt Alternate
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ARTIC A Real Time Interface Coprocessor
ASCII American National Standard Code for Interface
Interchange
AT Advanced Technology (as in AT Bus)
AVC Audio Video Connection
BIOS Basic Input/Output System (Controls System
Resources)
bps Bits Per Second
BPS Bytes Per Second
CCITT The International Telephone and Telegraph
Consultative Committee
CCS Common Command Set
CCSB Common Complete Status Block
CCSB Configuration Control Sub Board
CD Compact Disc
CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data
CD-ROM CD Read Only Memory (stores data/audio)
CGA Color Graphics Adapter (See EGA, VGA, XGA)
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CSA Canadian Standards Association
CSD Corrective Service Diskette
DASD Direct Access Storage Device (hard disk, diskette)
DMA Direct Memory Access
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
ECA Engineering Change Announcement
ECC Error Correction Code
EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter
ESD Electrostatic Discharge
ESDI Enhanced Small Device Interface
EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only
Memory
EWS Energy Work Station
FRU Field Replaceable Unit (replaceable part)
GPIB General Purpose Interface Bus (IEEE 348)
GSA General Services Administration
Ht Height
IDE Integrated Drive Electronics
IC Integrated Circuit
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IML Initial Machine Load
IPL Initial Program Load
ISA Industry Standard Architecture
ISO International Organization for Standardization
ISDN Integrated-Services Digital Network
LAN Local Area Network
LBA Local Block Address
LTB Local Transfer Bus
LUN Logical Unit Number (as in SCSI)
MAP Maintenance Analysis Procedure
Reference Information
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