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Operating System Glossary

The document provides a glossary of operating system related terminology with over 50 acronyms and terms defined. Some of the key terms included are API, BIOS, CPU, DMA, FAT, HDD, HTTP, I/O, IP, LBA, MBR, RAM, and USB. The glossary serves as a reference for common operating system components, functions, and standards.

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Operating System Glossary

The document provides a glossary of operating system related terminology with over 50 acronyms and terms defined. Some of the key terms included are API, BIOS, CPU, DMA, FAT, HDD, HTTP, I/O, IP, LBA, MBR, RAM, and USB. The glossary serves as a reference for common operating system components, functions, and standards.

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Operating System Glossary

A list of operating system related terminology. Add a glossary word if it is not already there. API BDA BIOS BP BPB CCP CHS DIR DMA DSO EOF EXT FAT FCB FDC FDD FLIH FTP GDT HAL HDC HDD HPFS HTTP IDT IF IP IPC ISA ISR IVT LBA LDT LPC LUT LVM MBR MBR Application Programming Interface BIOS Data Area Basic Input Output System Base Pointer BIOS Parameter Block Configuration Control Register Cylinder Head Sector Digital Input Register Direct Memory Access Downloadable Sub Oliteration End Of File extended file system File Allocation Table File Control Block Floppy Drive Controller Floppy Disk Drive First Level Interrupt Handler File Transfer Protocol Global Descriptor Table Hardware Abstraction Table Hard Disk Controller Hard Disk Drives high performance file system Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Interrupt Descriptor Table Interrupt Flag Internet Protocol Inter Process Communication Industry Standard Architecture Internet Service Routine Interrupt Vector Table Logical Block Addressing Local Descriptor Table Low Pin Count Look up Table logical volume manager Master Boot Record memory buffer register

MMU MSR NTFS NTFS OCW OTP PAE PAS PC PCB PCB PDT PIC PIT PMM POST PPI PSE PSFS PTE SC SDL SJF SLIH SP STBR TCP TDR TLB TSR UDP UFS USB VAS VFS VMM

Memory Manage Unit Main Status Register New Table File System new TECHNOLOGY file system Operation Command WOrd One Time Programmable Physical Address Expansion Physical Address Space Program Counter Process Control Block Printed Circuit Board Page Directory Table Programmable Interrupt Controller (IC 8259A) Programmable Interrupt Timer (IC 8254) Physical Memory Manager power on self test Programmable Peripheral Interface Page Size Extension polyserve file system Page Table Entries Stack Counter Shielded Data Link shortest job first Second Level Interrupt Handler Stack Pointer segment table base register Transmission control protocol Tape Drive Register Translation Lookaside Buffer Terminate and Stay Resident User Datagram Protocol unix file system Universal Serial Bus Virtual Address Space Virtual File System Virtual Memory Manager

NTLDR new technology loader

PDBR Page Directory Base Register

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