Guide to abbreviations
Sometimes authors of text in a document in this wiki use an abbreviation without explaining what it means. The meaning of the abbreviation may be well-known to many readers yet unknown to some other readers.
The purpose of this page is to show the meanings of abbreviations which occur in pages of this wiki. Readers are asked not to include abbreviations which are not mentioned in at least one other page of the wiki. Readers are asked to maintain this as an alphabetically arranged list.
BIOS means Basic Input/Output System
CD means Compact Disc
CMOS means Complementary Metal-Oxide-Silicon
CPU means the central processing unit of a computer or microcomputer
DNS means Domain Name System
ECC means Error Checking and Correction
ESD means Electrostatic Discharge
I/O means Input/Output
ISP means an Information Service Provider which is an organization which allows, often for a fee, individuals to connect to the internet.
JFFS2 means Journaling Flash File System, Version 2.
NAND means Not AND
OLPC means One Laptop per Child
p2p means Peer to Peer
PCI means peripheral component interconnect, a computer bus for attaching peripheral devices to a computer motherboard.
USB means Universal Serial Bus
