Abbreviation
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Term
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ACPI
|
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
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API
|
Application Programming Interface
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APIC
|
Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
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ATA
|
AT Attachment
|
AVL Tree
|
Adelson-Velsky Landis Tree
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BIOS
|
Basic Input/Output System
|
CPU
|
Central Processing Unit
|
DMA
|
Direct Memory Access
|
FTP
|
File Transfer Protocol
|
GB
|
GigaBytes (230 bytes in this document)
|
GDT
|
Global Descriptor Table
|
HP
|
Hewlett-Packard Company
|
HPC
|
High-Performance Computing
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HTTP
|
HyperText Transfer Protocol
|
IBM
|
International Business Machines Corporation
|
I/O
|
Input / Output
|
IP
|
Internet Protocol
|
IPC
|
Inter-Process Communication
|
ITRON
|
Industrial The Real-time Operating system Nucleus
|
LAPIC
|
Local APIC
|
LSI
|
Large Scale Integration (of circuitry)
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MB
|
MegaBytes (220 bytes in this document)
|
MBR
|
Master Boot Record (sector 0)
|
MFT
|
Master File Table
|
NTFS
|
New Technology File System
|
OS
|
Operating System
|
PCI
|
Peripheral Component Interconnect
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PDs
|
Page Directories
|
PDPT
|
Page Directory Pointer Table
|
PIT
|
Programmable Interval Timer
|
PL0
|
Privilege Level 0 (supervisor privilege)
|
PL3
|
Privilege Level 3 (user privilege)
|
PML4
|
Page Map Level 4 table
|
PS/2
|
Personal System/2 (or the ports thereof)
|
PTs
|
Page Tables (or in general the page mapping)
|
RAM
|
Random-Access Memory
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RPTs
|
Reverse Page Tables (not standardised)
|
SGI
|
Silicon Graphics Incorporated
|
SIMD
|
Single-Instruction, Multiple-Data
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SSE#
|
Streaming SIMD Extensions # (e.g. SSE3)
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TB
|
TeraBytes (240 bytes in this document)
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TCP
|
Transmission Control Protocol
|
TLB
|
Translation Lookaside Buffer
|
TSS
|
Task State Segment
|
UDP
|
User Datagram Protocol
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USB
|
Universal Serial Bus
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VBE
|
VESA BIOS Extensions
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