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385 lines
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>Glossary</TITLE
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NAME="GENERATOR"
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CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK
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REL="HOME"
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TITLE="Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO"
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HREF="index.html"><LINK
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REL="PREVIOUS"
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TITLE="Appendix B. Linux incompatible Hardware"
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>Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO</TH
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>Prev</A
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><H1
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><A
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NAME="GLOSSARY"
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>31. Glossary</H1
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> <P
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CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
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><DL
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><DT
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>AGP</DT
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> Accelerated Graphics Port. A bus interconnect mechanism
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designed to improve performance of 3D graphics
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applications. AGP is a dedicated bus from the graphics
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subsystem to the core-logic chipset.
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<A
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HREF="http://www.euro.dell.com/intl/euro/r+d/r+dnews/vectors/vect_2-1/v2-1_agp.htm"
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TARGET="_top"
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> here</A
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><DT
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>ATAPI</DT
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> AT Attachment Packet Interface. A new protocol for
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controlling mass storage devices similar to SCSI
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protocols. It builds on the ATA (AT Attachment) interface,
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the official ANSI Standard name for the IDE interface
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developed for hard disk drives. ATAPI is commonly used for
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hard disks, CD-ROM drives, tape drives, and other
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devices.
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</P
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></DD
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><DT
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>ATM</DT
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> Asynchronous Transfer Mode
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</P
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></DD
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><DT
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>CDDA</DT
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> Compact Disk Digital Audio. Capability of
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CD-ROM/Writer to read out audio tracks.
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</P
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>DMA</DT
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> Direct Memory Access
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>EGA</DT
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> Enhanced Graphics Adapter
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>EIDE</DT
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> Enhanced IDE
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</P
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></DD
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><DT
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>EISA</DT
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> Extended Industry System Architecture
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><DT
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>FDDI</DT
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> Fiber Distributed Data Interface. High-speed ring
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local area network.
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></DD
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><DT
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>IDE</DT
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> Integrated Drive Electronics. Each drive has a
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built-in controller.
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>ISA</DT
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><DD
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> Industry System Architecture
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</P
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><DT
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>ISDN</DT
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> Integrated Services Digital Network
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</P
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><DT
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>MCA</DT
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><DD
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> MicroChannel Architecture
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</P
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><DT
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>MFM</DT
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> Modified Frequency Modulation
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><DT
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>MMX</DT
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> Multimedia Extensions. Extra instructions meant to speed
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multimedia.
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><DT
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>PCI</DT
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> Pheripheral Component Interconnect. 32-bit bus designed
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by Intel. Information can be found
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HREF="http://www.pcisig.com/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>here</A
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>.
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></DD
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><DT
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>RAID</DT
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> Redudant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks. The basic idea of
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RAID is to combine multiple small, inexpensive disk
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drives into an array of disk drives which yields
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performance exceeding that of a single large expensive
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drive. There are five types of redundant array
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Architectures; RAID-1 through RAID-5. A non-redudant
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array of disk drives is referred to as RAID-0. Some RAID
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systems can mix formats.
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HREF="http://www.uni-mainz.de/~neuffer/scsi/what_is_raid.html"
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> (more info)</A
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></DD
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><DT
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>PPA</DT
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> Printing Performance Architecture. Protocol
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developed by Hewlett Packard for their series of Deskjet
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printers. In essence, the protocol moves the low-level
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processing of the data to the host computer rather than
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the printer. This allows for a low-cost printer with a
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small amount of memory and computing power and a flexible
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driver. However, this comes at the price of compatibility.
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HP's decision was to develop drivers only for Windows 95
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for this printer.
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></DD
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><DT
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>RLL</DT
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> Run Length Limited
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>SATA</DT
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> Serial ATA. Basically IDE over a much smaller cable. See
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HREF="http://www.serialata.org/"
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>SerialATA.Org</A
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for more information.
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></DD
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><DT
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>SCSI</DT
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><DD
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> Small Computer Systems Interface. A standerd interface
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defined for all devices in a computer. It make it
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possible to use a single adapter for all devices.
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HREF="http://www.uni-mainz.de/~neuffer/scsi/what_is_scsi.html"
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> (more info)</A
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></DD
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><DT
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>SVGA</DT
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><DD
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> Super Video Graphics Adapter
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>UART</DT
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><DD
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> Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter
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><DT
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>USB</DT
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><DD
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> Universal Serial Bus.
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><DT
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>VGA</DT
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><DD
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> Video Graphics Adapter
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><DT
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>VLB</DT
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><DD
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> VESA Local Bus. Used in some 486 PC's.
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><DT
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>WORM</DT
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><DD
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> Write Once Read Many
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