Okay, one of the Newbie requests was for a glossary of terms. Post them here and I'll incorporate them in this post as we go along. To keep the thread clean, I will delete your post after they are incorporated.
No discussion. Just terms.
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One place to check many technical terms is the
wikipedia
A - Amps
A to D | AD | A/D - Analog to Digital
AC or ac - Alternating Current
ADP - Automatic Data Processing
ALGOL - ALGOrithmic Language
ALU - Arithmetic and Logic Unit
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
APL - A Programming Language
ASA - American Standards Association
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
BAL - Basic Assembler Language
BASIC - Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BCD - Binary Coded Decimal
BER - Bit Error Rate
BIOS - Basic Input Output System
bit - binary digit
bpi - bits per inch
bps - bits per second
BSI - British Standards Institute
BSR -
Bruno Speech recognition.
A voice control program for car PC use.
CAD - Computer Aided Design
CAM - Computer Aided Manufacture
CCD - Charge Coupled Device
CCITT - Consultative Committee on International Telegraph and Telephone
cgs - centimeter gram second
CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
COBOL - COmmercial and Business Oriented Language
COM - Computer Output to Microfilm
cps - cycles per second
CPU - Central Processing Unit
CROM - Control Read Only Memory
CRT - Cathode Ray Tube. A type of computer display.
DAC - Digital to Analog Converter
DC or dc - Direst Current
DELPHI - Object-oriented pascal. A programming language.
DGPS - Differential GPS
DIP/DIL - Dual In Line Package
DMA - Direct Memory Access
DOS - Disk Operating System
DP - Data Processing
DSL - Digital Subscriber Line
DSP - Digital Signal Processing
DTL - Diode Transistor Logic
ELFEXT - Equal Level Far-End Crosstalk
EAROM - Electronically Alterable Read Only Memory
EPROM - Electronically Programmable Read Only Memory
F - Farads
FET - Field Effect Transistor
FEXT - Far-End Crosstalk
FIFO - First In First Out
FORTRAN - Formula Translator
FP -
Frodoplayer.
A carputer front end application
FD -
Freedrive.
A carputer navigation front end for destinator.
GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out
GMII - Gigabit Media Independent Interface
GUI - Graphical User Interface
H - Henrys
Hi - High
HU -Head unit (car stereo)
Hz - Hertz
IBM - International Business Machines Corporation
ic - integrated circuit
IEE - Institute of Electrical Engineers
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
iG - iGuidance
I/O - Input/Output
IP - Internet Protocol
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
ISO - International Organization for Standardization
JFET - Junction Field Effect Transistor
K - Kilo
KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid
LAAS - Local Area Augmentation System
LAN - Local Area Network
Laser - Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
LED - Light Emitting Diode (or Display)
LIFO - Last In First Out
Lo - Low
LSI - Large Scale Integration
MAC - Media Access Control
MAR - Memory Address Register
MC - MediaCar (Not used much anymore)
ME -
Media Engine.
A front end for car PC use.
MIPS - millions of instructions per second
MKS - Meter Kilogram Second
MLT - Multilevel Transmit Signal
MM - Multimode
MM -
MapMonkey.
A navigation front end for car PC use
MMC -
Mobile Media Center.
A front end program for Car PC use.
Mobo - Motherboard
Modem - Modulation demodulation
MOS - Metal Oxide Semiconductor
MOSFET - Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
MSI - Medium Scale Integration
MTBF - Mean Time Between Failure
MTTR - Mean Time To Restore (Repair)
NC - Numerical Control
NEXT - Near-End Crosstalk
NIC - Network Interface Card
NIH - Not Invented Here
NMC -
NeoCar Media Center.
A front end program for Car PC use
nMOS or NMOS - n (or N) Channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor
npn - negative positive negative
NTSC - National Television System Committee. A North American televsion standard
NV -
NaviVoice.
A voice control program for car PC use.
oc - open circuit
OCR - Optical Character Reader (or Recognition)
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
OMR - Optical Mark Reader (or Recognition)
op amp - operational amplifier
OS - Operating System
OSI - Open System Interconnection
PAL - Phase Alternating Line. A European television standard.
PAM - Pulse Amplitude Modulation
PC - Programmable Controller
pcb - printed circuit board
PCM - Plug Compatible Manufacturer
PCS - Physical Coding Sub layer
PERT - Project Evaluation Review Technique
PIA - Peripheral Interface Adapter
PIC - Programmable Integrated Circuit
PL/1 - Programming Language/One
PLA - Programmable Logic Array
PLC - Programmable Logic Controller
PMA - Physical Medium Attachment
PMD - Physical Medium Dependent
pMOS or PMOS - p (or P) channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor
pnp - positive negative positive
PNP - Plug and Play
POST - Power On Self Test
PROM - Programmable Read Only Memory
PRT - Platinum Resistance Thermometer
PV -
Power Voice, successor to voice nav program NaviVoice
QC - Quality Control
RAM - Random Access Memory
RJE - Remote Job Entry
ROM - Read Only Memory
RPG - Report Program Generator
RR -
Road Runner.
RoadRunner. An open source car PC front end application.
SDK - Software development kit (right?)
SIO - Serial Input Output
SM - Single-Mode
SNR - Signal-to-Noise Ratio
SPOOL - Simultaneous Peripheral Operations Overlap
STP - Shielded Twisted Pair
sync - synchronized, synchronous
TDM - Time Division Multiplexing
TFT - Thin Film Transistor
TRL - Transistor-Resistor Logic
TTY - Teletype
UART - Universal Asynchronous Receive/Transmit
ULA - Uncommitted Logic Array
USASI - United States of America Standards Institute
UTP - Unshielded Twisted Pair
V - Volts
VAB - Voice Answer Back
VDT - Visual (Video) Display Terminal
VDU - Visual (Video) Display Unit
VGA - Video graphics array
VRC - Visual Record Computer
W - Watts
WAAS - Wide Area Augmentation System
Z - Impedance