Glossary of Abbreviations

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.

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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.

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