Glossary S

S3TC = S3 Texture Compression architecture (S3 Savage3D/2000).
SACD = Super Audio Compact Disk (Sony/Philips).
SAS = Serial Attached SCSI Hard Disk Drive standard.
SATA = Serial Advanced Technology Attachment Hard Disk Drive standard (Western Digital).
SATA-150 = Serial Advanced Technology Attachment 150 MB/second tranfer rate Hard Disk Drive standard (Western Digital).
SATA-300 = Serial Advanced Technology Attachment 300 MB/second tranfer rate Hard Disk Drive standard (Intel).
SBK = EMU Sound Font BanK v1.0 (Creative Labs Sound Blaster sound cards).
Sci-Fi = Science Fiction (genre).
SCSI = Small Computers System Interface Hard Disk Drive standard.
SCSI-1 = Small Computers System Interface 1 specifications.
SCSI-2 = Small Computers System Interface 2 specifications.
SCSI-3 = Small Computers System Interface 3 specifications.
SDDS = Sony Dynamic Digital Sound (8 channel theater surround sound standard).
SDK = Software Developers Kit (programming).
SDRAM = Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory.
SDS = Satellite Data Service.
SDSL = Symmetrical Digital Subscriber Line modem standard.
SDX = Storage Data Acceleration (Western Digital).
SECAM = SEquential Couleur Avec Mémoire (French TV standard: 625 lines).
SECC = Single Edge Contact Cartridge (Intel Pentium II CPU).
SECC2 = Single Edge Contact Cartridge 2 (Intel Pentium III CPU).
SED = Surface Conduction Electron Emitter flat screen Display (Canon/Toshiba).
SEL = Software Emulation Layer (Microsoft Direct3D).
SEPP = Single Edge Processor Package (Intel Celeron CPU).
Serial ATA = Ultra Serial ATA 1500 v1.0 Hard Disk Interface standard: 1.5 Gb/sec (Western Digital).
SET = Secure Electronic Transaction standard.
SF2 = EMU Sound Font Bank v2.0 (Creative Labs Sound Blaster sound cards).
SFF = Small Form Factor (motherboard form factor).
SFN = Short File Name (8.3 = MS-DOS 16-bit).
SGI = Silicon Graphics Incorporated.
SGML = Standard Generalized Markup Language (W3C).
SGRAM = Synchronous Graphics Random Access Memory.
SHDSL = Single pair High bit rate Digital Subscriber Line modem standard.
SIMD = Single Instruction Multiple Data stream (Intel Pentium CPUs multimedia streaming instructions).
SIMM = Single In-line Memory Module.
SLC = Subscriber Line Charge.
SLDRAM = Synchronous Link Dynamic Random Access Memory (Hyundai).
SL-DRAM = Synchronous Layout Dynamic Random Access Memory (Siemens/Micron).
SLI = Scan Line Interleave technology (2 or more 3dfx Voodoo2/3/4/5/6 chipsets on same video controller).
SLIP = Serial Line Internet Protocol.
SLM = Spatial Light Modulator.
SMART = Self Monitoring Analysis Reporting Technology standard (hard disk).
SMB = Server Message Block (Microsoft sharing protocol).
SMDS = Switched MultiMegabit Data Service.
SMIL = Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (W3C).
SMP = Symmetrical MultiProcessing standard.
SMPTE = Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.
SMTP = Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (e-mail exchange standard).
SNMP = Simple Network Management Protocol.
S/NR = Signal to Noise Ratio.
SOAP = Simple Object Access Protocol (W3C Internet standard, uses XML).
SO-DIMM = Small Outline Dual Inline Memory Module connector.
SOHO = Small Office/Home Office.
SOI = Silicon On Insulator CPU technology (Intel).
Spam = Unsolicited/unwanted (junk) advertising e-mail.
SPD = Serial Presence Detection (EEPROM).
S/PDIF = Sony/Philips Digital Interchange Format.
SPF = Sender Policy Framework (e-mail exchange standard).
SPI = Stateful Packet Inspection (networking).
SPI-2 = SCSI Parallel Interface 2 standard (SCSI-3).
SPI-3 = SCSI Parallel Interface 3 standard (SCSI-3).
SPP = Standard Parallel Port.
SQL = Structured Query Language.
SRAM = Static Random Access Memory.
sRGB = 32-bit standard Red Green Blue color encoding (Microsoft/Hewlett Packard).
sRGB64 = 64-bit standard Red Green Blue double precision color encoding (Microsoft/Hewlett Packard).
SSA = Serial Storage Architecture bus/interface (device/peripheral).
SSD = Solid State memory Disk (flash RAM drive).
SSE = Streaming SIMD Extensions (Intel Pentium III CPUs 70 instructions).
SSE2 = Streaming SIMD Extensions version 2 (Intel Pentium IV CPUs 144 instructions).
SSL = Secure Sockets Layer (secure Internet protocol).
SSLv2 = Secure Sockets Layer version 2 (secure Internet protocol).
SSR = Super Scalar Rendering (3D video).
STA = SCSI Trade Association.
STD/VR = STanDard Voltage Regulator (CPU).
STM = Scanning Tunneling Microscope.
SVCD = Super Video Compact Disk standard (enhanced MPEG-1 encoding).
SVG = Scalable Vector Graphics XML 2D graphics language (W3C).
SVGA = Super Video Graphics Array standard (800x600 pixels).
SX = X86 Intel CPU without FPU (386/SX, 486/SX).
SXGA = Super EXtended Graphics Array standard (1280x1024 pixels) (also SXVGA).
SXVGA = Super EXtended Video Graphics Array standard (1280x1024 pixels) (also SXGA).
Sync SRAM = Synchronous burst Static Random Access Memory (CPU L2 cache).