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Pennsylvania ACEP 2001 ED Informatics Symposium Page 1/2 Computer Terminology Reference 2.2 Keith Conover, M.D., FACEP ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (form of CRT Cathode Ray Tube: standard type computer Firewire IEEE 1394 serial port (faster than USB) DSL) monitor display FLOPS Floating Point Operations/Second AFAIK (as far as I know; email) CPU Central Processing Unit FPM Fast Page Mode (RAM) AGP Advanced Graphics Port CSID Call Subscriber ID (for FAX and phone caller FYI For Your Information AIM AOL Instant Messenger ID) GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out ALT. ALTernate lifestyle (USENET newsgroup CSLIP Compressed Serial Line Interface Protocol GIS Geographic Information System category) [Internet] GNU Gnu's Not Unix (operating system that really ANSI American National Standards Institute CSV Comma-Separated Value/Variable (file type) IS Unix) AOL America Online CTRL Control (computer keyboard key) GPS Global Positioning Satellite/System ARQ Automatic Repeat Request CYMK Cyan-Yellow-Magenta-Black (color model) GUI Graphical User Interface ASCII American Standard Code for Information DAC Data Acquisition and Control + Digital to GW-basic Gee Whiz BASIC Interchange Analog Converter HDSL High-Data-Rate Digital Subscriber Line ASP Association of Shareware Professionals dB Decibel (DSL) + High-Speed Digital Subscriber ASPI Advanced SCSI Programming Interface DBMS Data Base Management System Loop [Adaptec] DCD Data Carrier Detect HDTV High Definition Television ATA Advanced Technology Attachment (original DCE Data Communications Equipment + HEX Hexadecimal hard drive interface) Distributed Computing Environment [OSF] HP Hewlett-Packard (Company) ATDT Attention Dial Tone (modem command) + Distributed Computing Equipment HPFS High-Performance File System (Windows ATM Adobe Typeface Manager + Asynchronous DCF Data Communication Facility [IBM] + NT) Transfer Mode DDE Direct Data Entry + Dynamic Data HPGL Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language ATZ Attention Restore configuration profile from Exchange [Microsoft] HPIB Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus nonvolatile RAM (modem command) DDR Double Data Rate (double=speed of RAM) HPLJ Hewlett-Packard Laser Jet Autoexec Automatic Execution file (AUTOEXEC.BAT DDR-SDRAM Double Data Rate-SDRAM HSV Hue Saturation Value (color model) automatically executed on startup of DOS DIMM Dual Inline Memory Module HTML HyperText Markup Language systems) DIN Deutsche Industrie Norm (German HTTP HyperText Transport Protocol AWK (Unix language named after its authors... Al equivalent of EIA) HTTP-NG HTTP Next Generation Aho, Peter Weinberger and Brian DIP Dual In-line Package (e.g., DIP switches) HTTPS HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure Kernighan) DIR Directory (file) Hz Hertz (frequency, per second) B2B Business to Business DLL Dynamic Link Library IDE Integrated Development Environment BDSL Broadband DSL DMA Direct Memory Access/Addressing [Borland] + Integrated Drive Electronics + BEDO Burst Extended Data Out (RAM) DNS Domain Naming System (Internet address Intelligent Drive Electronics BIOS Basic Input/Output System (system chips) names) IEEE 1394 Firewire (faster serial port than USB) BPS Bits Per Second + Bytes Per Second DOS Disk Operating System IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol [Internet; a BsoD Blue (or black) Screen of Death: Windows DPI Dots Per Inch step up from POP] just died (again) DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory IMHO (in my humble opinion; email) CAD Computer Aided Design DSL Digital Subscriber Line: fast Internet I/O Input/Output (serial and parallel ports) CADD Computer Aided Design and Drafting connection over existing phone lines IP Internet Protocol (as in TCP/IP) CC: Carbon Copy (email usage) DSTN Double Supertwisted Nematic (LCD screen IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange [Novell] CCITT Comite Consultatif International type) IR Infrared Telegraphique et Telephonique/ DTMF Dual Tone Multiple Frequency (phone tones) IrDA Infrared Data Association (Ir port standard) Consultative Committee for International DUN Dial-Up Networking (Microsoft) IRQ Interrupt Request (PC hardware signal) Telegraph and Telephone DVD Digital Video Disk; Digital Versatile Disk; 4.7 ISA Industry Standard Architecture CD Change Directory (UNIX/DOS) GB CD format ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network (digital CD-R Compact Disk - Recordable EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange phone line) CD0R/W Compact Disk - Rewritable Code [IBM] (is to ASCII as Sanskrit is to ISP Internet Service Provider CD-ROM Compact Disk - Read Only Memory English) IT Information Technology CD-WO Compact Disk - Write Once ECC Error Check Code + Error Checking and I-WAY Information Highway CD-XA Compact Disk - Extended Architecture Correction + Error Correction Code JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group CDMA Code-Division Multiple Access ECP Enhanced Capabilities Port [Microsoft] KB Keyboard + Kilobyte (1,024 bytes; also kB) (wireless/cellphone protocol) EDO Extended Data Out (RAM) kHz Kilohertz CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data (wireless EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read- LAN Local Area Network protocol) Only Memory LCD Liquid Crystal Display CERN The European Particle Physics Laboratory EIDE Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics (hard LED Light Emitting Diode (initials originally from Conseil European drive interface) LF Line Feed pour la Recherche Nucleaire) EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture LIF Low Insertion Force CERT Computer Emergency Response Team) (PC bus design) LINUX (Free-Source version of UNIX Operating CGI-BIN Common Gateway Interface – Binary EMACS Editing Macros [Unix editor] system named after Linus Torvalds) (programming for Web forms) EOF End of File (^Z character) listserv List Server [Internet] CIS CompuServe Information Service EPP Enhanced Parallel Port LPI Lines Per Inch CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor EPROM Electrically Programmable Read Only LPT Line Printer (type of nonvolatile memory chip) + PC Memory + Erasable Programmable Read LPT1 First Parallel Printer Port configuration stored on CMOS Only Memory LPT2 Second Parallel Printer Port CMYK Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black (color model) ESDI Enhanced Small Device Interface LQ Letter Quality COAX Coaxial Cable (for Ethernet and similar EWAN Emulator Without A Good Name [Internet] LSI Large Scale Integration networks) FAQ Frequently Asked Question LZW Lempel-Ziv-Walsh (algorithm) COM1 First serial Port (asynchronous port) FAT File Allocation Table MB Megabyte (also mB; 1,000 kilobytes) COM2 Second serial Port FDC Floppy Disk Controller MBASIC Microsoft BASIC [Microsoft] COMDEX Computer Dealers Exposition (biggest yearly FDISK Fixed Disk (DOS utility) MBps Megabytes Per Second U.S. computer show) FIFO First-In, First-Out Mbps Megabits Per Second Pennsylvania ACEP 2001 ED Informatics Symposium Page 2/2 Computer Terminology Reference 2.2 Keith Conover, M.D., FACEP MD Make Directory (DOS/Unix) SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access .BAS Basic Language MEG Megabyte Memory .BAT Batch Processing MFS Macintosh File System [Macintosh] SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language .BIN Binary MHz Megahertz (million cycles per second) SGRAM Synchronous Graphics RAM .BMP Bitmap Picture MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface SIMM Single In-line Memory Module .CFG Configuration MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension [email SIPP Single In-line Pin Package .CGM Computer Graphics Metafile + attachment protocol] SLIP Serial Line Interface Protocol .CHK CHKDSK MIPS Million Instructions Per Second S-MIME Secure MIME .COM Command MMX Multimedia Extensions (additional CPU SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (basic email .DAT Data instructions) protocol) .DIC Dictionary MODEM Modulator Demodulator SNOBOL String Oriented Symbolic Language .DOC Document + Documentation (file name MPC Multimedia Personal Computer (Microsoft) (Programming Language) extensions) MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group SO-DIMM Small Outline DIMM .DRV Device Driver (Also see .DVR) MSCDEX Microsoft Compact Disc Extension SRAM Static Random Access Memory .EPS Encapsulated PostScript MS-DOS Microsoft - Disk Operating System SSL Secure Sockets Layer .HLP Help MSG Message SVGA Super Video Graphics Array .HQX BinHexed [Macintosh] MSIE Microsoft Internet Explorer [Microsoft] SYSOP System Operator .ICO Icon MTBF Mean Time Between Failures TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet .IDX Index NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Protocol .INI Initialize Applications TDMA Tone-Division Multiple Access .JPG Joint Photographic Experts Group NICAD Nickel Cadmium wireless/cellphone protocol (compressed graphics format) NIMH Nickel-Metal Hydride TEMP Temporary .ME Usually Read.ME NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol [Internet] Thomas The (U.S.) House (of Representatives) Open .MP3 MPEG 3 compressed audio NSFNET National Science Foundation Network Multimedia Access System .NDX Index OCX OLE Custom Control TIFF Tagged Image File Format .OLD Old version OLE Object Linking and Embedding [Microsoft] TMP Temporary .OVL Program Overlay PBSRAM Pipeline Burst RAM TWAIN Technology Without Any Interesting Name .OVR Program Overlay PC-DOS Personal Computer - Disk Operating System (connection between application and scanner .PAS PASCAL source code [IBM] software) .PCT Picture PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect/Interface UAE Unrecoverable Application Error .PCX Picture Image (PC Bus) UART Universal Asynchronous .PDF Portable Document Format (Adobe Acrobat) PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card Receiver/Transmitter + Printer Description [Borland,Lotus] International Association UDMA Ultra Direct