Guide to abbreviations

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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


CPU means the central processing unit of a computer or microcomputer


DNS


ECC


ESD


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

http://www.laptop.org/


p2p


PCI means peripheral component interconnect, a computer bus for attaching peripheral devices to a computer motherboard.


USB means Universal Serial Bus