Computer Terms and Acronyms
A ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) - Specification developed by Intel, Compaq, Phoenix, Microsoft and Toshiba to control power on notebooks and other devices. Windows 98 and Windows 2000/XP support ACPI. ATC (Advanced Transfer Cache) - A type of L2 cache contained within the Pentium processor housing that is embedded on the same core processor die as the CPU itself. ANSI (American National Standards Institute) - A non-profit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards. ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) - A popular standard for writing letters and other characters in binary code. Originally, ASCII characters were seven bits, so there were 127 possible values. ASCII has been expanded to an 8-bit version, allowing 128 additional values. asynchronous SRAM - Static RAM that does not work in step with the CPU clock and is, therefore, slower than synchronous SRAM. AT - A form factor no longer produced, in which the mother...