Abbreviations (C)

  Abbreviations (C)

Abbreviations.	Meaning
CAMC	Common Access Method Committee
Candela	Unit of luminous intensity, appr. equ. to the pre-SI Candele Power
CAPI	Common Application Programming Interface
CAS	Column Access Strobe (Memory)
CBIOS	Compatibility Basic Input Output Service
	or Compatibility BIOS
CCD	Charge Coupled Devices
CCITT (see ITU)	The International Telephone and Telegraph Consultative Committee
CCS	The SCSI Common Command Set. A set of SCSI commands that is
	specified in the ANSI standard that all SCSI device must be to use
	in order to be fully compatible with the ANSI standard.
CCSB	Common Complete Status Block
CCSB	Configuration Control Sub Board
CDDI	Copper Distributet Data Interface
CDPD	Cellular Digital Packet Data
CD-R	CD-Recordable
CD-ROM	Compact Disk - Read Only Media. Usually 4.75 Inch or 12 cm in
	diameter, from which data is read optically by means of laser.
CD-ROM/XA	Compact Disk/Extended Architecture - Read Only Media
CD-RW	CD-ReWritable
CE	Customer Engineer or Service Representative
CELP	Card Edge Low Profile (see COAST)
CGA	Color Graphics Adapter
CGI	Common Gateway Interface
CHAP	Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
CHS	Cylinder Head Sector, Standard CHS - limit = 16 heads/1024 cyl. (528MB)
	Extended (large) CHS - for more than 1024 cyl. (if possible use LBA)
CICS	Customer Information and Control Program
CID	Configuration, Installation and Distribution
CIRC	Cross Interleaved Reed Solomon Code
	(CD-ROM error correction)
CMOS	Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
COAST	Cache On A Stick (Lvl.2 CPU-Cache SIMM) aka = CELP
COFDM	Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Modulation (digital TV)
CompTIA	Computing Technology Industry Association
CP : xx	Check Point (e.g. during 8595 Startup)
CPU	Central Processing Unit
CRC	Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRT	Cathode Ray Tube
CRTC	CRT Controller
CRU	Customer Replaceable Unit
CSA	Canadian Standards Association
CSD	Corrective Service Diskette
CSMA/CA	Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance
CSMA/CD	Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
CTS	Common Transport Semantics
CUA	Common User Access