\DosDevices

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Different names for the symbolic link directory seen by WinObj

AC

Alternating Current

ACK

Acknowledge

ACK

USB Acknowledge packet

ACPI

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface BIOS specification

http://www.teleport.com/~acpi/

AGP

Accelerated Graphics Port

APC

Asynchronous Procedure Call

Code that operates in the context of a specific user thread

API

Application Programmer Interface

AML

ACPI Machine Language

ASL

ACPI Source Language

ATVEF

Advanced Television Enhancement Forum

HTML-based enhanced television info@atvef.com or, in Europe, dvbinfo@atvef.com

BIOS

Basic Input/Output System

BSOD

Blue screen of death

NT and W2000 bugcheck screen

build

Command line tool for building drivers

Bulk

A USB data transfer type, for large blocks of data

CDB

Command Descriptor Block

For SCSI commands

checked build

Nonoptimized debug build of a driver or Windows, with debug symbols

CIM

Common Information Model

WBEM model for WMI

CIMOM

CIM Object Manager

CMIP

Common Management Information Protocol

COM

Common Object Model

Composite device

A USB device with more than one interface

Compound device

A piece of USB hardware with several internal USB devices

Configuration

A set of interfaces in a USB device

Control

A USB data transfer type for small blocks of data

DATA0, DATA1

USB Data packet IDs

DC

Direct Current

DDC

Display Data Channel

Monitor/video channel enumeration

DDK

Driver Development Kit

DDI

Device Driver Interface

DebugPrint

PHD driver trace tool

default pipe

A flow of data to USB...