| F |
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| FAST-20 |
Fast SCSI-3 Parallel Interface standard. |
| FAT |
File Allocation Table. |
| FAT16 |
File Allocation Table 16-bit (MS-DOS). |
| FAT32 |
File Allocation Table 32-bit (Windows 95/98). |
| FCBS |
File Control Blocks. |
| FC-AL |
Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (Ultra Fast SCSI). |
| FCC |
Federal Communications Commission (USA). |
| FC-PGA |
Flip Chip Pin Grid Array package (Intel Pentium III E
CPU). |
| FC-PH |
Fibre Channel PHysical and signaling interface (SCSI-3). |
| FD |
Floppy Disk. |
| FDC |
Floppy Drive Controller. |
| FDD |
Floppy Disk Drive. |
| FDDI |
Fiber Distributed Data Interface. |
| FED |
Field Emission Display. |
| FERAM |
FerroElectric Dynamic Random Access Memory
(Infineon/Toshiba). |
| FIFO |
First In First Out. |
| FMD |
Fluorescent Multilayer Disc (C3D 140 GB CD-ROM
technology). |
| FMV |
Full Motion Video. |
| FPD |
Flat Panel Display. |
| FPE |
File Protection Error. |
| FPM |
Fast Page Mode (DRAM). |
| fps |
frames per second. |
| FPTV |
Front Projection TeleVision. |
| FPU |
Floating Point Unit (coprocessor). |
| FRAM |
Ferroelectric Random Access Memory. |
| Frame-buffer |
1st + 2nd dimensions/height + width/x + y axes memory (2D
video). |
| FSAA |
Full Screen Anti-Aliasing edge smoothing (3D video). |
| FSB |
Front Side Bus (motherboard CPU to I/O bus). |
| FTP |
File Transfer Protocol. |
| Full-Duplex |
Two way modem communication protocol (echo-plex). |
| FXT1 |
Advanced Texture Compression technology (3Dfx). |