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Information Technology Acronyms. Making sense out of the alphabet-soup?. Conceptual Acronyms. x86/x64 RISC/SPARC/MIPS Describes a PC’s “architecture” or style of instruction set FIFO/SMP First-In First-Out Symmetric Multi-Processing BIOS/EFI
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Information Technology Acronyms Making sense out of the alphabet-soup?
Conceptual Acronyms • x86/x64 RISC/SPARC/MIPS • Describes a PC’s “architecture” or style of instruction set • FIFO/SMP • First-In First-Out • Symmetric Multi-Processing • BIOS/EFI • Basic Input Output System/Extensible Firmware Interface • RAM/ROM • Random Access Memory (can be read from and written to) • Read Only Memory (can only be read from) ???
Processor Acronyms • CPU • Central Processing Unit • FPGA/GPU • Field Programmable Gate Array • Graphics Processing Unit • BGA/PGA • Ball-Grid Array/Pin Grid Array • FPU • Floating Point Unit • FSB/CPS • Front Side Bus/Cycles Per Second
Peripheral Hardware Acronyms • ISA/VLB/CGA (antiquated) • Industry Standard Architecture • Video Local Bus/Color Graphics Array • PCI/PCI-X/PCI-E (most common/most recent) • Peripheral Connection Interface -Express • AGP VGA/DVI • Advanced Graphics Port • Video Graphics Array/Digital Video Interface • (P)ATA/(e)-SATA IDE SCSI • Serial) Advanced Technology Attachment • Small Computer System Interface • USB • Universal Serial Bus
Storage Acronyms • HDD/SSD • Hard Disk Drive/Solid State Disk • SD/DDR DIMM -RAM • Synchronous Dynamic/Double Data Rate • Dual Inline Memory Module • CD-ROM/DVD-ROM –RAM -RW • Compact Disc or Digital Versatile Disc • Random Access Memory or Re-Writable • SD/CF/FRAM • Secure Digital/Compact Flash/Flash-RAM
Software Acronyms • WINTEL • Windows+Intel, synonymous with IBM/Compatible • GNU/Linux • “G”nu’s “n”ot “U”nix, clever, clever. • BSD • Berkley Software Distribution – from UCB • LAMP/BAMP • Linux/BSD + Apache + MySQL + PHP • IIS • Internet Information Server
Network Acronyms • ARPANET • Advanced Research Projects Agency Network • WWW • World Wide Web • TCP/IP • Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol • DHCP • Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol • DNS • Domain Name System
So What Did We Build? • A WINTEL system, with an x64 CPU and FPGA, DDR RAM, a DVD-RW and CD-RW, PCI and PCI-E, USB, and an SSD which gets its IP from a DHCP server before it goes on the WWW. • A GNU/Linux system with a SPARC CPU, FPGA, ECC RAM, SCSI HDD, and AGP Video. Perhaps it is a DNS server which helps our WINTEL system resolve IP addresses on the WWW.