Computer Related Acronyms

ACL: Access Control List
ACPI: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
ADSL: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AGP: Accelerated Graphics Port
ANSI: American National Standards Institute
API: Application Program Interface
APM: Advanced Power Management
ARP: Address Resolution Protocol
ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange
AT: Advanced Technology
ATA: AT Bus Attachment
ATAPI: ATA Packet Interface
ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode
BBS: Bulletin Board System
Bcc: Blind Carbon Copy
BMP: Bitmap
CCD: Charged Coupled Device
BIOS: Basic Input / Output System
BPS/bps: Bytes/bits Per Second
BSD: Berkeley Standard Distribution
CD-R: Compact Disc Recordable
CDROM: Compact Disk Read Only Memory
CD-RW: Compact Disc Re-Writable
CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access
CISC: Complex Instruction Set Computing
CHS: Cylinder Head Sector
CMOS: Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
CMYK: Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
CPU: Central Processing Unit
CRC: Cyclical Redundancy Check
CRT: Cathode Ray Tube
CSS: Cascading Style Sheet
CSR: Command Status Register
DAT: Digital Audio Tape
DBMS: Database Management System
DDL: Data Definition Language
DDR: Double Data Rate
DIP: Dual-In-line Package
DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DIMM: Dual In-Line Memory Module
DLL: Dynamic Link Library
DMA: Direct Memory Access
DNS: Domain Name System
DOS: Disk Operating System
DPI: Dots Per Inch
DRAM: Dynamic Random Access Memory
DRM: Digital Rights Management
DSL: Digital Subscriber Line
DSP: Digital Signal Processor
DTC: Data Terminal Controller
DTE: Data Terminating Equipment
DTR: Data Terminal Ready
DV: Digital Video
DVD: Digital Versatile Disc
DVD+R: Digital Versatile Disc Recordable
DVD+RW: Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable
DVD-R: Digital Versatile Disc Recordable
DVD-RAM: Digital Versatile Disc Random Access Memory
DVD-RW: Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable
DVI: Digital Video Interface
DVR: Digital Video Recorder
EC: Error Check
ECC: Error Check and Correction
EEPROM: Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EMI: Electro-Magnetic Interference
EMF: Electro-Magnetic Force
EOF: End Of File
EOL: End Of Line
EPROM: Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
FAT: File Allocation Table
FCC: Federal Communications Commission
FDD: Fixed/Floppy Disk Drive
FDDI: Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FDM: Frequency Division Multiplexing
FDX: Full-Duplex Transmission
FIFO: First-In First-Out
FILO: First-In Last-Out
FM: Frequency Modulation
FPU: Floating Point Unit
FSF: Free Software Foundation
FSK: Frequency Shifty Keying
FTP: File Transfer Protocol
GIF: Graphics Interchange Format
GPS: Global Positioning System
GPU: Graphics Processing Unit
GUI: Graphical User Interface
HD: High Density / Hard Disk
HDD: Hard Disk Drive
HFS: Hierarchical File System
HTML: Hyper-Text Markup Language
HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protocol
HTTPS: HyperText Transport Protocol Secure
I/O: Input/Output
IBM: International Business Machines Corporation
IC: Integrated Circuit
ICMP: Internet Control Message Protocol
ICS: Internet Connection Sharing
ICT: Information and Communication Technologies
IDE: Integrated Device Electronics
IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IM: Instant Message
IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol
InterNIC: Internet Network Information Center
IP: Internet Protocol
IPX: Inter network Packet eXchange
IRC: Internet Relay Chat
ISP: Internet Service Provider
IT: Information Technology
IVR: Interactive Voice Response
JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group
JRE: Java Runtime Environment
IRQ: Interrupt ReQuest
ISA: Industry Standard Architecture
ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network
ISO: International Standards Organization
JFS: Journalized File System
kVA: KiloVolt-Amps
Kbps: Kilobits Per Second
KDE: K Desktop Environment
KVM Switch: Keyboard, Video, and Mouse Switch
LAN: Local Area Network
LCD: Liquid Crystal Display
LED: Light Emitting Diode
LIFO: Last In, First Out
LSB/lsb: Least Significant Byte/bit
LSI: Large Scale Integration
LUN: Logical Unit Number
MAN: Metropolitan Area Network
MB/Mb: Mega Bytes/bits
MBR: Master Boot Record
MHz: MegaHertz
MICR: Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
MIDI: Musical Instrument Data Interface
MMX: Multi-Media Extensions
MODEM: MOdulator / DEModulator
MOS: Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
MP3: MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3
MP: Multi-Processor
MPEG: Moving Picture Experts Group
MTU: Maximum Transmission Unit
MSDOS: Microsoft’s Disk Operating System
NAT: Network Address Translation
NetBIOS: Network Basic Input/Output System
NFS: Network File System
NIC: Network Interface Card
NNTP: Network News Transfer Protocol
NOC: Network Operations Center
NTFS: New Technology File System
NVRAM: NonVolatile Random Access Memory
OCR: Optical Character Recognition
ODBC: Open Database Connectivity
OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer
OOP: Object-Oriented Programming
OS: Operating System
OSD: On Screen Display
OSF: Open Software Foundation
OSI: Open Systems Interconnected
OSPF: Open Shortest Path First
P2P: Peer To Peer
PAL/PLA: Programmable Array Logic / Logic Array
PBX: Private Branch eXtender
PC: Personal Computer
PCB: Printed Circuit Board
PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCI-X: Peripheral Component Interconnect Extended
PCM: Pulse Code Modulation
PCMCIA: Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PDF: Portable Document Format
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
PIM: Personal Information Manager
PNG: Portable Network Graphic
PnP: Plug-and-Play
POP3: Post Office Protocol 3
POST: Power On Self Test
PPM: Pages Per Minute
PPPoE: Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet
PPTP: Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
PPP: Point-to-Point Protocol
PROM: Programmable Read Only Memory
PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Network
RAID: Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks
RAM: Random Access Memory
RAMDAC: Random Access Memory Digital to Analogue Converter
RCA: Radio Corporation of America
RDRAM: Rambus DRAM
RFC: Request For Comments
RFI: Radio Frequency Interference
RGB: Red Green Blue
RISC: Reduced Instruction Set Computing
ROM: Read Only Memory
RPC: Remote Procedure Call
RPM: Rotations Per Minute
RTC: Real Time Clock
RTS: Request To Send
SAN: Storage Area Network
SCSI: Small Computer Systems Interface
SDK: Software Development Kit
SDRAM: Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SDSL: Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line
SIMM: Single Inline Memory Module
SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMART: Self-Monitoring Analysis And Reporting Technology
SMB: Server Message Block
SMS: Short Message Service
SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol
SMTP: Smiple Mail Tranfer Protocol
SNR: Signal to Noise Ratio
SSD: Solid State Drive
SSH: Secure Shell
SSID: Service Set Identifier
SSL: Secure Sockets Layer
SQL: Structured Query Language
SVGA: Super Video Graphics Array
TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
TDM: Time Division Multiplexing
TFT: Thin-Film Transistor
TIFF: Tagged Image File Format
TRANSISTOR: TRANSformer resISTOR
TTL: Time To Live
UDP: User Datagram Protocol
UNC: Universal Naming Convention
UNIX: A trademark used for a computer disk operating system
URI: Uniform Resource Identifier
URL: Uniform Resource Locator
UPS: Un-interruptible Power Supply
USB: Universal Serial Bus
USL: UNIX System Labs
VCR: Video Cassette Recorder
VFAT: Virtual File Allocation Table
VESA: Video Enhanced Standards Association
VGA: Video Graphics Array
VoIP: Voice Over Internet Protocol
VLSI: Very Large Scale Integration
VM: Virtual Memory
VPN: Virtual Private Network
WAIS: Wide Area Information Server
WAN: Wide Area Network
WEP: Wired Equivalent Privacy
Wi-Fi: Wireless Fidelity
WPA: Wi-Fi Protected Access
WWW: World Wide Web
XHTML: Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
XML: Extensible Markup Language
XGA: eXtended Graphics Array