Topics: Hardware : Standards
Agreed principles of protocol. Standards are set by committees working under various trade and international organizations.
ECP
Extended Capabilities (Parallel) Port
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EIDE
Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics An improved interface to the IDE hard disk interface. Enhanced IDE allows you to attach hard disks of larger than 528 megabytes (the largest normal IED will handle) up to a maximum of 8.4 gigabytes.
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EISA
In a computer a "bus" is an electrical channel for getting information and commands in and around the computer.
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EPP
Enhanced Parallel Port A new hardware and software innovation (and now a standard) which allows computers so equipped to send data out their parallel port at twice the speed of older parallel ports, i.e.
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ESDI
Enhanced Small Device Interface
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IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. www.ieee.org IEEE founded in 1884, have the world's largest technical professional society, consisting of over 320,000 members in 147 countries.
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ISA
Industry Standard Architecture The most common bus architecture on the motherboard of MS-DOS computers. The ISA bus was originally pioneered by IBM on its PC, then its XT and then its AT.
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PCMCIA
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
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SSA
Systems Applications Architecture A set of specifications written by IBM describing how users should interface with applications and communications programs.
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TWAIN
TWAIN (technology without an important [interesting] name) It is a program that lets you scan an image (using a scanner) directly into the application (such as PhotoShop) where you want to work with the image.
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