| A |
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| A3D |
Aureal 3D surround sound technology. |
| AA |
Anti-Aliasing edge smoothing technology (3D video). |
| AAAS |
American Association for the Advancement of Science. |
| AAF |
Advanced Authoring format (Microsoft video). |
| AC |
Alternating Current. |
| AC-3 |
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound standard (5 + 1 6
channels). |
| ACPI |
Advanced Configuration Power Interface. |
| ADC |
Analog to Digital Converter. |
| ADPCM |
Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation. |
| ADSL |
Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line modem. |
| ADVD |
Audio Digital Versatile Disc. |
| AFR |
Alternate Frame Rendering (ATI Rage Fury MAXX). |
| AFM |
Atomic Force Microscope. |
| AGP |
Accelerated Graphics Port technology standard (Intel). |
| AGP-1x |
Accelerated Graphics Port technology 1st generation standard:
66 MB/sec bandwidth (Intel). |
| AGP-2x |
Accelerated Graphics Port technology 2nd generation standard
using sidebands: 133 MB/sec bandwidth (Intel). |
| AGP-4x |
Accelerated Graphics Port technology 3nd generation standard
using fast writes: 266 MB/sec bandwidth (Intel). |
| AGRAS |
AntiGlare AntiReflection AntiStatic screen treatment
(CRT). |
| AI |
Artificial Intelligence. |
| AIFF |
Audio Interchange File Format (Apple). |
| AIT |
Advanced Intelligent Tape (Sony). |
| ALDC |
Adaptive Lossless Data Compression (IBM). |
| AMD |
Advanced Micro Devices Incorporated. |
| AMI |
American Megatrends Incorporated. |
| AMR |
Audio/Modem Riser slot (Intel Pentium III 8281x chipsets). |
| ANI |
Microsoft Windows ANImated cursor graphic file. |
| ANSI |
American National Standards Institute. |
| AOL |
America OnLine Incorporated. |
| API |
Application Programming Interface. |
| APIC |
Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller. |
| APM |
Advanced Power Management. |
| ARAG |
AntiReflection AntiGlare screen treatment (CRT). |
| ARAS |
AntiReflection AntiStatic screen treatment (CRT). |
| ARP |
Address Resolution Protocol. |
| ASC |
Active Signal Correction technology (Sony CRT). |
| ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. |
| ASF |
Advanced Streaming Format (Microsoft NetShow). |
| ASIC |
Application Specific Integrated Circuit. |
| ASP (1) |
Advanced Sound Processor (Creative Labs). |
| ASP (2) |
Application Service Provider. |
| ASPI |
Advanced SCSI Programming Interface. |
| ASVD |
Analog Simultaneous Voice and Data. |
| Async SRAM |
Asynchronous Static Random Access Memory (CPU L2 cache). |
| AT |
Advanced Technology (Intel motherboard form factor). |
| ATA |
Advanced Technology Attachment (ANSI standard for Integrated
Drive Electronics). |
| ATA-4 |
Ultra ATA/Ultra DMA 33.33 MB/second tranfer rate (EIDE/ATA hard
disk controller/drive standard). |
| ATA-6 |
Ultra ATA/Ultra DMA 66.66 MB/second tranfer rate (EIDE/ATA hard
disk controller/drive standard). |
| ATA-8 |
Ultra ATA/Ultra DMA 100 MB/second tranfer rate (EIDE/ATA hard
disk controller/drive standard). |
| ATAPI |
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface. |
| Athlon |
AMD Athlon K7 CPU. |
| ATM (1) |
Adobe Type Manager. |
| ATM (2) |
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (network). |
| ATSC |
Advanced Television Systems Committee. |
| ATV |
Advanced TeleVision (i.e. HDTV). |
| ATX |
Advanced Technology EXtended (Intel motherboard form
factor). |
| AUTOEXEC.BAT |
AUTOmatically EXECuted BATch file. |
| AVI |
Advanced Video Interleave (Microsoft video). |
| AWR |
Active Wide Range playback system (Toshiba CD-ROM). |
| AXCEL216 |
Packard Bell AXCEL216 386/SX 25 MHz (my first PC). |
