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Acronyms

ACM Association for Computing Machinery
ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit
ASCII American Standards Code for Information Interchange
ANSI American National Standards Institute
BCD Binary Coded Decimal
CD Compact Disk
CD-ROM Compact Disk-Read Only Memory
CPU Central Processing Unit
CISC Complex Instruction Set Computer
DRAM Dynamic Random-Access Memory
DMA Direct Memory Access
DVD Digital Versatile Disk
EPIC Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing
EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
HLL High-Level Language
I/O Input/Output
IAR Instruction Address Register
IC Integrated Circuit
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ILP Instruction-Level Parallelism
IR Instruction Register
LRU Least Recently Used
LSI Large-Scale Integration
MAR Memory Address Register
MBR Memory Buffer Register
MESI Modify-Exclusive-Shared-Invalid
MMU Memory Management Unit
MSI Medium-Scale Integration
NUMA Nonuniform Memory Access
OS Operating System
PC Program Counter
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PROM Programmable Read-Only Memory
PSW Processor Status Word
PCB Process Control Block
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RALU Register/Arithmetic-Logic Unit
RAM Random-Access Memory
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer
ROM Read-Only Memory
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
SMP Symmetric Multiprocessors
SRAM Static Random-Access Memory
SSI Small-Scale Integration
ULSI Ultra Large-Scale Integration
VLSI Very Large-Scale Integration
VLIW Very Long Instruction Word