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
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