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
CD means Compact Disc
CMOS
ECC
ESD
I/O means Input/Output
JFFS2 could be Journaled Flash File System version 2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFFS2
Or is it Journalling Flash File System version 2
as http://sourceware.org/jffs2/jffs2-html/ is entitled JFFS : The Journalling Flash File System
NAND means Not AND
OLPC means One Laptop per Child
PCI means peripheral component interconnect, a computer bus for attaching peripheral devices to a computer motherboard.
USB means Universal Serial Bus
