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Abbreviations & Acronyms:
There are many comonly used abbreviations and acronyms used in
'computer-speak'. When an abbreviation is used in an AtariPhile
article it will be added to this glossary.
- AES
- Application Environment Services.
- AIF
- Sound format.
- AP
- AtariPhile - The bimonthly magazine of the Falcon
FacTT File.
- ASCII
- American Standard Code for Information
Exchange.
- AU
- Sound format.
- AV
- AV Protocol - Inter program communication.
- AVR
- Sound format.
- BBS
- Bulletin Board System.
- CAB
- Crystal Atari Browser.
- CMY(B)
- Cyan Magenta Yellow (Black).
- CPU
- Central Processing Unit.
- DD
- Double Density disk.
- DOS
- Disk Operating System.
- DPI
- Dots Per Inch.
- DSP
- Digital Signal Processor.
- DTP
- Desk Top Publishing.
- DVS
- Sound format.
- ED
- Extra (High) Density disk.
- FAT
- File Allocation Table.
- FFF
- Falcon FacTT File - A user group for owners of Atari Falcons, TTs
and PAKs.
- FPU
- Floating Point process Unit.
- G
- Gigabyte.
- GDOS
- Graphic Device Operating System.
- GEM
- Graphic Environment Manager.
- GEMDOS
- Graphic Environment Manager Disk Operating System.
- HD
- High Density disk.
- HSN
- Sound format.
- HTML
- HyperText Markup Language.
- IDE
- Integrated (or Intelligent) Drive Electronics.
- K
- Kilobyte.
- Mb
- Megabyte.
- MIPS
- Milions of Instructions Per Second.
- OCR
- Optical Character Recognition.
- OS
- Operating System.
- PD
- Public Domain.
- PSU
- Power Supply Unit.
- RAM
- Random Access Memory
- RGB
- Red Green Blue.
- ROM
- Random Only Memory.
- SCSI
- Small Computer System Interface.
- SIMM
- Single In-line Memory Module.
- SMP
- Sound format.
- SND
- Sound format.
- ST
- Sixteen Thirtytwo.
- STA - STApps
- ST Applications - Magazine of the FaST Club.
- STF
- ST Format magazine.
- SVGA
- Super Video Graphics Adaptor.
- TOS
- The Operating System.
- TT
- Thirtytwo Thirtytwo.
- VDI
- Visual Device Interface.
- VGA
- Video Graphics Adaptor.
- WAV
- Sound format.
- WP
- Word Processor.