Word | Pronounced
| Meaning
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Gigabyte | gig a bite ("gig" is like the music
concert) | 1024� or 1,073,741,824 bytes. Some
manufacturers think that Gigabytes are just decimal numbers, so 1 billion
(American) bytes equals a Gigabyte - this is why you feel you're getting gipped
when you buy a 4.3GB drive and it only turns out to hold 4GB.
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SCSI | scuhzzy | The drive interface for SCSI
drives. You can recognise a SCSI drive because it will have at least fifty pins
on the back of it.
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IDE | eye dee ee | The drive interface that most
Amigas now have. It can be recognised by its forty or forty-four pin
interface.
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MUI | mooey | Magic User Interface.
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LhA | ell aitch 'ay | Popular archive format
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LZX | ell zed ecks | A better compression
format
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DMS | dee emm ess | A format for compressing disk
images.
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GIF | gif (like "gift" without the tee) | An image format for dealing with images with eight
bits of colour or fewer.
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JPEG/JPG | jaypeg | Another image format, this
time for working with 24-bit images.
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IFF | eye eff eff | A popular misnomer for the native
Amiga image format which should be ILBM.
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PNG | ping | Another image format for dealing with image
of 1-24 bits of colour. Designed to replace GIF and JPEG.
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AGA | 'ay gee 'ay | All A1200s and A4000s have this graphics
chipset.
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Psion | sion | A manufacturer of rather neat
palmtops and PDAs.
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NTSC | enn tee ess sea | The American TV standard.
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