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111Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. — Abbreviated AMD. The fifth largest manufacturer of integrated circuits, flash memory, and microprocessors, specializing in clones of Intel s popular PC chips, including the AMD386, AMD486, AMDK5, and the AMDK6. For more information about… …
112Advanced Mobile Phone Service — Abbreviated AMPS. Currently the cellular telephone standard in the United States; an analog, cellular communications system developed by AT&T. AMPS uses frequencydivision multiplexing (FDM) and operates in the 825 to 890MHz range. See also… …
113Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking — Abbreviated APPN. IBM s SNA (Systems Network Architecture) protocol, based on APPC (Advanced Program to Program Communications). APPN allows nodes on the network to interact without a mainframe host computer and implements dynamic network… …
114Advanced Power Management — Abbreviated APM. An API specification from Microsoft and Intel intended to monitor and extend battery life on a laptop computer by shutting down certain system components after a period of inactivity. See also Advanced Configuration and… …
115Advanced Program-to-Program Communications — Abbreviated APPC. A set of protocols developed by IBM as a part ofitsSNA (SystemsNetworkArchitecture), designed to allow applications running on PCs and mid range hosts to exchange data easily and directly with mainframes. APPC can be used… …
116advanced run-length limited encoding — Abbreviated ARLL. A technique used to store information on a hard disk that increases the capacity of runlength limited (RLL) storage by more than 25 percent and increases the data transfer rate to 9Mbps. See also RLL encoding …
117Advanced Technology Attachment — Abbreviated ATA. The ANSI X3T10 standard for the disk drive interface usually known as Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE). See also Integrated Drive Electronics …
118Aggregate Route-Based IP Switching — Abbreviated ARIS. A scheme from IBM used to establish switched paths through networks that act as virtual circuits, transmitting data packets through the network without the need to make routing decisions at every step. ARIS uses tagging… …
119American National Standards Institute — Abbreviated ANSI. A nonprofit organization of more than 1000 business and industry groups, founded in 1918, devoted to the development of voluntary standards. ANSI represents the United States in the International Organization for… …
120American Standard Code for Information Interchange — Abbreviated ASCII, pronounced [as kee]. A standard coding scheme that assigns numeric values to letters, numbers, punctuation characters, and control characters to achieve compatibility among different computers and peripheral devices. In… …
