| P |
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| P II |
Intel Pentium II CPU (80686 Klamath/Deschutes/Xeon). |
| P III |
Intel Pentium III CPU (80686 Katmai/Coppermine/Xeon). |
| P5 |
Intel Pentium/Pentium Pro CPU (80586). |
| P6 |
Intel Pentium II/III CPU (80686). |
| PAL |
Phase Alternate Line (European TV standard: 625 lines). |
| PAP |
Password Authentication Protocol. |
| PBC |
Pipeline Burst Cache. |
| PBM |
Portable BitMap UNIX picture file. |
| PBSRAM |
Pipeline Burst Static Random Access Memory (CPU L2 cache). |
| PC |
Personal Computer. |
| PC99 |
Intel/Microsoft PC 1999 System Design Guide. |
| PCB |
Printed Circuit Board. |
| PCD |
Kodak Photo CD image file. |
| PCI |
Peripheral Component Interconnect bus architecture: 32-bit,
33/66 MHz (Intel). |
| PCI 2.1 |
Peripheral Component Interconnect 2.1 standard: 32-bit, 33/66
MHz (Intel). |
| PCI 2.2 |
Peripheral Component Interconnect 2.2 standard: 32-bit,
33/66/133 MHz (Intel). |
| PCI-X |
Peripheral Component Interconnect eXtended bus architecture:
64-bit, 133 MHz (Intel/Compaq/HP/IBM). |
| PCL |
Printer Control Language. |
| PCM |
Pulse Code Modulation. |
| PCMCIA |
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association. |
| PCS |
Personal Communications Service. |
| PCX |
Zsoft PC Paintbrush Picture file. |
| PDA |
Personal Digital Assistant. |
| PDF |
Portable Document Format file (Adobe Acrobat). |
| PDP |
Parallel Data Processing (Intel I-740). |
| pel |
Picture ELement: RGB 3 dot pattern (color TV). Also pixel. |
| Pentium |
Intel Pentium CPU (80586). |
| Pentium Pro |
Intel Pentium Pro CPU (80586). |
| Pentium II |
Intel Pentium II CPU (80686 Klamath/Deschutes/Xeon). |
| Pentium III |
Intel Pentium III CPU (80686 Katmai/Coppermine/Xeon). |
| PERL |
Practical Extraction and Report Language. |
| PFPT |
Pure Flat Picture Tube. |
| PGM |
Portable GrayMap UNIX picture file. |
| PIC (1) |
Programmable Interrupt Controller. |
| PIC (2) |
Lotus PICtor/PC Paint picture file. |
| PIF |
Program Information File (Microsoft Windows). |
| PIM |
Personal Information Manager. |
| PING |
Packet InterNet Groper. |
| PIO |
Programmed Input/Output. |
| pixel |
PIcture ELement: RGB 3 dot pattern (color CRT). Also pel. |
| PLEDM |
Phase-state Low Electron Drive Memory (Hitachi). |
| PLGA |
Plastic Land Grid Array (Intel Pentium II CPU). |
| PLL |
Phase Locked Loop (CPU clock multiplier chip). |
| PMTU |
Path Maximum Transmission Unit (Internet protocol). |
| PNG |
Portable Network Graphics file. |
| PnP |
Plug and Play standard. |
| POP (1) |
Post Office Protocol. |
| Pop (2) |
Point of Presence. |
| POP3 |
Post Office Protocol 3 standard. |
| POST |
Power On Self Test (BIOS). |
| POTS |
Plain Old Telephone Service. |
| PPGA |
Plastic Pin Grid Array (370 pin Intel CPU). |
| PPI |
Precise Pixel Interpolation (Intel I-740). |
| PPM |
Portable PixelMap UNIX picture file. |
| PPP |
Point to Point Protocol. |
| PPTP |
Point to Point Tunneling Protocol. |
| PRI |
Primary Rate Interface. |
| PRML |
Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (hard drive). |
| PRN |
PRiNter port. |
| PS/2 |
IBM Personal System/2. |
| PSD |
RGB/indexed PhotoShop image file (Aldus). |
| PSTN |
Public Switched Telephone Network. |
| PVR |
Personal Video Recorder (TV to digital). |
