PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PC Personal Computer
HDD Hard Disk Drive
GPU Graphics Processing Unit
IDE Integrated Drive Electronics.
FPS Frames Per Second
FAT File Allocation Table
EIDE Enhanced Integrated Device Drive
Electronics
DVI Digital Visual Interface
DVD Digital Versatile Disk,
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
DMA Direct Memory Access
DIMM Dual Inline Memory Module
DDR2 Double Data Rate 2.
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CPU Central Processing Unit
CPS Caractres Par Seconde
FPU (Floating Point Unit
CAS Column Address Strobe
BIOS Basic Input Output System
ATAPI AT Attachment Packet Interface
API Application Programming Interface
AMD Advanced Micro Devices
AGP Accelerated Graphics Port
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power
Interface
AA Anti Aliasing
Dpi Dots per inch.
LAN Local Area Network
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface.
Modem Modulator/Demodulator
NIC Network Interface Card
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
PNP Plug aNd Play
POST Power On Self Test.
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RAM Random Access Memory
Rambus RAM (RDRAM) Rambus Dynamic
Random Access Memory (RDRAM).
RAMDAC RAM Digital-til-Analog Converter
RDRAM RAMBUS Dynamic Random Access
Memory
ROM Read Only Memory
SATA Serial ATA
SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface
SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic RAM
SLI Scan Line Interleaving
SMP Symmetric MultiProcessing
TPM Tours Par Minutes (ou RPM).
USB Universal Serial Bus
WLAN Wireless LAN.
ZIF Zero Insertion Force
SIMM (Single Inline Memory Modules
ASCII (American Standard Code for
Information Interchange)
CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide
Semiconductor
ISA (Industry Standard Architecture
MFT, Master File Table
(DNS, Domain Name System
NetBIOS (network basic input/output system
TLS (Transport Layer Security)
SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol)
ESF EncryptingFile System
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DSL (Digital Subscriber Line)