Abbreviations (A)

  Abbreviations (A)

Abbreviations.	Meaning
ABEND	Abnormal End
ABIOS	Advanced Basic Input Output System
ACP	Advanced Communication Processor (TP-770 modem)
ACPA/A	Audio Capture and Playback Adapter
ACPI	Automatic Configuration and Power Interface (BIOS)
	(Not all Operating Systems support ACPI BIOS mode).
ADF	Application Development Facility
ADP	Automatic Data Processing
ADPCM	Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation
ADSL	Asymetric Digital Subscriber Line
	(for baseband Modem up to 2Mbs)
AGC	Automatic Gain Control
AGP	Accelerated Graphics Port
AIX	Advanced Interactive Executive
aka	Also Known As
ALU	Arithmetic and Logic Unit
	A part inside the CPU/Processor chip
A/N	alphanumeric
ANSI	American National Standards Institute
	11 West 42 Street, New York, New York 10036
APA	All Points Addressable
APAR	Authorized Program Analysis Report
API	Application Programming Interface
APIC	Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (e.g.PC 365 - IRQ 0-24)
APM	Advanced Power Management
APPC	Advanced Program-to-Program Communication
APPN	Advanced Peer to Peer Networking
arbitration	A method with which multiple devices
	attached to a single bus can bid to get control of that bus.
ARCNET	Attached Resource Computing Network
ARTIC	A Real Time Interface Co-Processor
ASCII	American National Standard Code for Information Exchange
	The standard code uses only 7-Bit '00-7F' IBM has defined an
	extension to ASCII code (characters 128-255 '80-FF')
ASIC	Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASK	Amplitude Shift Key (Sharp ASK - Infrared 9600bps - 19.2kbps)
ASPI	Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
ASSET-ID	Radio Frequency Identification (see ASSET-ID)
AT	Advanced Technology (as in AT Bus)
AT	Attention Command (Hayes) setup parameter used for configuring MODEMS
(Modem Command setup)
ATAPI	AT Attachment Packet Interface (e.g. CD-ROM, Tapes)
AT-DBA	AT Direct Bus Attach
ATA	AT Attachment
ATC	Attribute Control
ATM	Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM-Network - up to 622MBit/s)
AVC	Audio Video Connection
AVE	Auxiliary Video Extension
AWG	American Wire Gauge