COMPUTER ABBREVIATIONS

  

           COMPUTER ABBREVIATIONS

        

ABR	Average Bit Rate
ADSL	Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AGP	Advanced Graphics Port
AI	Artificial Intelligence
AIM	AOL Instant Messenger
ALGOL	Algorithmic Language
ALU	Arithmetic Logic Unit
AOL	America Online
AMD	Advanced Micro Devices
API	Application Program Interface
APT	Automatically Programmed Tooling
ARP	Address Resolution Protocol
ARPANET	Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
ARQ	Automatic Repeat Request
AS	Autonomous System
ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASP	Active Server Pages
ASPI	Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
ATA	Advanced Technology Attachment
ATDT	Attention Dial Tone
AUI	Attachment Unit Interface
AUTOEXEC	Autoexec Automatic Execution file
AVI	Audio Video Interleave
BASIC	Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BCC	Blind Carbon Copy
BCD	Binary Coded Decimal
BCR	Bar Code Reader
BDSL	Broadband DSL
BEDO	Burst Extended Data Out (RAM)
BGP	Border Gateway Protocol
BHTML	Broadcast Hyper Text Markup Language
BIOS	Basic Input Output System
BIPS	Billion Instruction Per Second
BIU	Bus Interface Unit
BMP	Bitmap
BRD	Blu-Ray Disc
CC	Carbon Copy
CD	Compact Disk
CD-R	Compact Disk – Recordable
CDROM	Compact Disk Read Only Memory
CDRW	Compact Disk Rewritable
CD-WO	Compact Disk – Write Once
CD-XA	Compact Disk – Extended Architecture
CGI-BIN	Common Gateway Interface – Binary (programming for Web forms)
CIS	CompuServe Information Service
CISC	Complex Instructions Set Computers
CMD	Command
CMYK	Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black (color model)
CNM	Circulatory Network Mode
COAX	Coaxial Cable (for Ethernet and similar networks)
COBOL	Common Business Oriented Language
COMPUTER	Commonly Operated Machine Particularly Used for Trade/Technology, Education, and Research.
CPI	Clock / Cycle Per Instruction
CPU	Central Processing Unit
CROM	Computerized Range of Motion
CRT	Cathode Ray Tube
CSLIP	Compressed Serial Line Interface Protocol (Internet)
CSS	Cascading Style Sheets
CTRL	Control (computer keyboard key)
CUI	Character User Interface
DAC	Data Acquisition and Control
DAT	Digital Audio Tape
Db	Decibel
DBMS	Data Base Management System
DDL	Data Definition Language
DHTML	Dynamics Hyper Text Markup Language
DML	Data Manipulation Language
DNS	Domain Name System
DOC	Data Optimizing Computer
Doc	Document
DOS	Disk Operating System
DRAM	Dynamic Random Access Memory
DVD	Digital Video/Versatile Disc
DVDR	Digital Versatile Disk Recordable
DVDRW	Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable
DCE	Data Communications Equipment
DVI	Digital Visual Interface
DVR	Digital Video Recorder
E-Commerce	Electronic Commerce
EDC	Electronic Digital Computer
EDI	Electronic Data Interchange
EDP	Electronic Data Processing
EEPROM	Electronically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EFS	Encrypted File System
EIDE	Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics
E-Mail	Electronic Mail
EPROM	Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EROM	Erasable Read Only Memory
FDD	Floppy Disk Drive
GB	Giga Byte
GDI	Graphical Device Interface
GUI	Graphical User Interface
HD	Hard Disk
HTML	Hyper Text Markup Language
HTTP	Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
I/O	Input/Output (serial and parallel ports)
IC	Integrated Circuit
IMAP	Internet Message Access Protocol
INTEL	Integrated Electronics
IOP	Input Output Processor
IP	Internet Protocol
ISDN	Integrated Services Digital Network
ISP	Internet Service Provider
IVR	Interactive Voice Response
KB	KILOBYTE
Kbps	Kilobits/Kilobytes Per Second
LAN	Local Area Network
LED	Light Emitting Diode
LLL	Low Level Language
LPT	Line Printer
MAC	Media Access Control
MAN	Metropolitan Area Network
MB	Motherboard/ Megabyte
MBASIC	Microsoft BASIC (Microsoft)
MBPS	Megabytes Per Second
Mbps	Megabits Per Second
MICR	Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
MMX	Multimedia Extensions
MODEM	Modulator Demodulator
MSCDEX	Microsoft Compact Disc Extension
MS-DOS	Microsoft – Disk Operating System
NAT	Network Address Translation
NTP	Network Time Protocol
OCR	Optical Character Reader
OMR	Optical Mark Reader
OOP	Object Oriented Programming
OS	Operating System
P2P:	Point to Point Protocol
PAN	Personal Area Network
PC:	Personal Computer
PCB	Printer Circuit Board
PCI	Peripheral Component Interconnect
PHP	Hypertext Preprocessor
PIXEL	Picture Element
PNG	Portable Network Graphics
PPP	Point to Point Protocol
PRN	Printer
PROM	Programmable Read Only Memory
RAM	Random Access Memory
RARP	Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
RDBMS	Relational Data Base Management System
RIP	Routing Information Protocol
RISC	Reduced Instruction Set Computer
ROM	Read Only Memory
SAM	Software Asset Management
SAN	Storage Area Network
SCSI	Small Computer System Interface
SDRAM	Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SFTP	Secure File Transfer Protocol
SGML	Standard Generalized Markup Language
SGRAM:	Synchronous Graphics RAM
SIP	Session Initiation Protocol
SIU	Serial Interface Unit
SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNAP	Sub Network Access Protocol
SNMP	Simple Network Management Protocol
SRAM	Static Random Access Memory
SYSOP	System Operator
TCP	Transmission Control Protocol
UI	User Interface
URL	Uniform Resource Locator
USB	Universal Serial Bus
VCD	Video Compact Disk
VDU	Visual Display Unit
VIRUS	Vital Information Resource Under Siege
VRAM	Video Random Access Memory
VxD	Virtual Extended Driver
WAN	Wide Area Network
WAP	Wireless Application Protocol
WBMP	Wireless Bitmap Image
WIFI	Wireless fidelity
WLAN	Wireless Local Area Network
WML	Wireless Markup Language
WWW	World Wide Web
XGA	Extended Graphics Array
XHTML	Extensible Hyper Text Markup Language
XMF	Extensible Music File
XML	Extensible Markup Language
XMS	Extended Memory Specification
FORTRAN	Formula Translation