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Abbreviation Meaning
LED Light-emitting diode.
Mb An Mb suffix to a numerical value indicates size in megabits
(for example, 10 Mb). A megabit equals 1,048,576 bits.
MB A MB suffix to a numerical value indicates size in megabytes
(for example, 550 MB). A megabyte equals 1,048,576 bytes.
MHz Megahertz.
MAU Media adapter unit.
ns Nanoseconds.
NVRAM Nonvolatile random access memory.
PCI Peripheral component interconnect.
RISC Reduced instruction set computing.
ROM Read only memory.
SCSI Small computer system interface.
SIMM Single in-line memory modules.
SRM Digital UNIX and OpenVMS console firmware.
SROM Serial read only memory.