AC
(Alternating Current) The common form of electricity from power plant to home/office. Its direction is reversed 60 times per second in the U.S.; 50 times in Europe. Contrast with DC.

AE
Applications Engineer.

AFS
Andrew File System.

AI
Artificial Intelligence.

ALU
Arithmetic-Logic Unit.

AM
Amplitude Modulated.

AMD
(Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.) A manufacturer of x86-compatible CPUs. AMD has become a competitor to Intel and its chips are used by many PC makers, including Compaq. Chips with the Am486, K5, K6 and K7 Athlon CPU's are made by AMD.

AMI
American Megatrends Inc.

ANSI
American National Standards Institute.

ASIC
Application Specific Integrated Circuit.

ASCII
A
merican Standard Code for Information Interchange. Pronounced "ask-ee." A binary code
for text as well as communications and printer control. It is used for most communications and is
in the built-in character code in most minicomputers and all personal computers.

ASPI
(Advanced SCSI Programming Interface) An interface from Adaptec, Inc., that provides a common language between drivers and SCSI host adapters
(Adaptec company website www.adaptec.com).

AT
Advanced Technology.

ATA
AT bus Attachment.

ATAPI
(
AT
Attachment Packet Interface). The interface specification for IDE drives. ATAPI defines the
specification for CD-ROMs and tape drives.

ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode.

ATDM
Asynchronous Time Division Multiplexing.

AUI
Attached Unit Interface.

 

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