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ALU: Arithmetic logic unit

2. ACPI: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3. AC: Alternating Current
4. AM: Amplitude Modulated
5. AMD: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
6. AMD: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
7. AMI: American Megatrends Inc.
8. ANSI: American National Standards Institute
9. API: Application Program Interface
10. APIC: Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
11. APM: Advanced Power Management
12. ASCII: American Standard Code for Information
Interchange
13. ASIC: Application Specific Integrated Circuit
14. ASPI: Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
15. AT: Advanced Technology
16. ATA: AT Bus Attachment
17. ATAPI: ATA Packet Interface
18. ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode
19. BBS: Bulletin Board System
20. BCC: Block Check Character
21. BSC: Binary Synchronous Communications
22. BSD: Berkeley Standard Distribution
23. BTU: British Thermal Units
24. BCD: Binary Coded Decimal
25. BIOS: Basic Input / Output System
26. BNC: Bayonet Nut Connector
27. BPS: Bytes Per Second
28. bps: bits Per Second
29. CAM: Computer Aided Manufacturing
30. CAD: Computer Aided Design
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CAS: Column Address Strobe

32. CPU : Central Processing Unit
33. CPI: Clocks Per Instruction
34. CR: Carriage Return
35. CUI : Composite User Interface
36. CRT : Cathode Ray Tube
37. CRC: Cyclical Redundancy Check
38. CD: Carrier Detect & Compact Disc
39. CD-R : Compact Disc-Recordable
40. CD-RW : Compact Disc-ReWritable
41. CD-ROM : Compact disc read-only memory
42. CGA: Color Graphics Adapter
43. CHS: Cylinder Head Sector
44. COMPUTER: Common Oriented Machine Particularly
Used for Trade Education and Research
45. CMOS: Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
46. CPLD: Complex Programmable Logic Device
47. CSR: Command Status Register
48. CRC: Cyclic Redundancy Check
49. CTS: Clear To Send
50. DVI : Digital Visual Interface
51. DVD : Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc
52. DAT: Digital Audio Tape
53. DC: Direct Current
54. DCD: Data Carrier Detect
55. DCE: Data Circuit-terminating Equipment
56. DD: Double Density
57. DEC: Digital Equipment Corporation
58. DIMM: Dual Inline Memory Module
59. DIP: Dual-In-line Package
60. DMA: Direct Memory Access
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DMI: Desktop Management Interface

62. DOS: Disk Operating System
63. DPE: Data Parity Error
64. DRAM: Dynamic Random Access Memory
65. DS: Double Sided
66. DSP: Digital Signal Processor
67. DSR: Data Set Ready
68. DTA: Disk Transfer Area
69. DTC: Data Terminal Controller
70. DTE: Data Terminating Equipment
71. DTR: Data Terminal Ready
72. EBCDIC: Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange
Code
73. EC: Error Check
74. ECC: Error Check and Correction
75. ECP: Enhanced Communication Port
76. ECU: EISA Configuration Utility
77. EDO: Extended Data Out RAM
78. EEPROM: Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only
Memory
79. EGA: Enhanced Graphics Adapter
80. EIA: Electronic Industries Association
81. EIDE: Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics
82. EISA: Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture
83. EMI: Electro-Magnetic Interference
84. EMF: Electro-Magnetic Force
85. EMM: Expanded Memory Manager
86. EMS: Expanded Memory Specification
87. EOF: End Of File
88. EOL: End Of Line
89. EPP: Enhanced Parallel Port
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EPROM: Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

91. ESCD: Extended System Configuration Data
92. ESD: Electro-Static Discharge
93. ESDI: Enhanced Small Devices Interface
94. FTP - File Transfer Protocol
95. FAT: File Allocation Table
96. FCC: Federal Communications Commission
97. FDD: Fixed/Floppy Disk Drive
98. FDDI: Fiber Distributed Data Interface
99. FDM: Frequency Division Multiplexing
100.
FDX: Full-Duplex Transmission
101.
FE: Front End
102.
FEP: Front End Processor
103.
FF: Form Feed
104.
FIFO: First-In First-Out
105.
FILO: First-In Last-Out
106.
FM: Frequency Modulation
107.
FPGA: Field Programmable Gate Array
108.
FPM: Fast Page Mode RAM
109.
FPU: Floating Point Unit
110.
FRC: Functional Redundancy Checking
111.
FRU: Field-Replaceable Unit
112.
FSF: Free Software Foundation
113.
FSK: Frequency Shifty Keying
114.
GUI : Graphical user interface
115.
GAS: Gallium Arsenide
116.
GFLOPS: Billions of Floating Point Operations Per
Second
117.
HTML : Hyper Text Markup Language
118.
HD: High Density
119.
HDD: Hard Disk Drive
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HDX: Half-Duplex Transmission

121.
HFS: Hierarchical File System
122.
HPFS: High Performance File System
123.
IBM : International Business Machines
124.
I/O: Input/Output
125.
IC: Integrated Circuit
126.
IDE: Integrated Device Electronics
127.
IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
128.
IMP: Interface Message Processor
129.
IP: Internet Protocol
130.
IPC: Inter Process Communication
131.
IPX: Inter network Packet eXchange
132.
IRQ: Interrupt ReQuest
133.
ISA: Industry Standard Architecture
134.
ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network
135.
ISO: International Standards Organization
136.
ISR: Interrupt Service Routine
137.
IVT: Interrupt Vector Table
138.
JFS: Journalized File System
139.
KNI: Katmai New Instructions
140.
KVA: KiloVolt-Amps
141.
LBA: Linear Block Array / Addressing
142.
LCD : Liquid crystal display
143.
LAN : Local area network
144.
LOGO : Language of Graphic-Oriented
145.
LED: Light Emitting Diode
146.
LF: Line Feed
147.
LIF : Low Insertion Force
148.
LIM: Lotus/Intel/Microsofts Expanded Memory
Manager
149.
LRU: Least-Recently Used
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LSB: Least Significant Byte/bit

151.
LSI: Large Scale Integration
152.
LUN: Logical Unit Number
153.
LASER : Light Amplification by Stimulated
Emission of Radiation
154.
MAN : Metropolitan area network
155.
MESI: Modified/Exclusive/Shared/Invalid
156.
MIPS : Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline
Stages
157.
MSo : Micro Soft Office, Multi system operator
158.
MB/Mb: Mega Bytes/bits
159.
MBR: Master Boot Record
160.
MCA: Micro Channel Architecture
161.
MCGA: Multi-Color Graphics Array
162.
MCM: Multi-Chip Module
163.
MDRAM: Multi-bank RAM
164.
MFLOPS: Millions of FLOating Point Operations per
Second
165.
MFM: Modified Frequency Modulated
166.
MHz: MegaHertz
167.
MICR: Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
168.
MIDI: Musical Instrument Data Interface
169.
MIMD: Multiple-Instruction Multiple-Data
170.
MISD: Multiple-Instruction Single Data
171.
MMX: Multi-Media Extensions
172.
MNP: Microcom Network Protocol
173.
MODEM: MOdulator / DEModulator
174.
MOPS: Millions of Operations Per Second
175.
MOS: Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
176.
MP: Multi-Processor
177.
MPP: Massively Parallel Processor
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MPS: Multi-Processor System

179.
MSB: Most Significant Byte/bit
180.
MSDOS: Microsofts Disk Operating System
181.
SI: Medium Scale Integration
182.
MTBF: Mean Time Between Failure
183.
N/C: No-Connect
184.
NBS: National Bureau of Standards
185.
NEMA: National Electrical Manufacturers
Association
186.
NFS: Network File System
187.
NFU: Not-Frequently Used
188.
NIC: Network Interface Card
189.
NMI: Non-Maskable Interrupt
190.
NMOS: Negatively doped Metal-Oxide
Semiconductor
191.
NOP: No OPeration NRU Not-Recently Used
192.
NOS: Network Operating System
193.
NSF: National Science Foundation
194.
NTFS: New Technology File System
195.
NVRAM: NonVolatile Random Access Memory
196.
OCR: Optical Character Recognition
197.
ODI: Open Data link Interface
198.
OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer
199.
OS: Operating System
200.
OSF: Open Software Foundation
201.
OSI: Open Systems Interconnect
202.
PAL: Programmable Array Logic
203.
PB: Push Button
204.
PBX: Private Branch eXtender
205.
PC: Personal Computer, Program Counter
206.
PCB: Printed Circuit Board
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PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect

208.
PCM: Pulse Code Modulation
209.
PCMCIA: Personal Computer Memory Card
International Association
210.
PE: Processor Element
211.
PFF: Page Fault Frequency
212.
PGA: Professional Graphics Array
213.
PGA: Pin Grid Array
214.
PIC: Programmable Interrupt Controller
215.
PIO: Programmed Input / Output
216.
PIROM: Processor Information ROM
217.
PLA: Programmable Logic Array
218.
PLCC: Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier
219.
PLD: Programmable Logic Devices
220.
PLL: Phase Locked Loop
221.
PM: Preventive Maintenance
222.
PMOS: Positively doped Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
223.
PnP: Plug-and-Play
224.
POST: Power On Self Test
225.
PPP: Point-to-Point Protocol
226.
PQFP: Plastic Quad Flat Pack
227.
PROM: Programmable Read Only Memory
228.
PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Network
229.
PSP: Program Segment Prefix
230.
PTE: Page Table Entry
231.
QAM: Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
232.
QFP: Quad Flat Pack
233.
QIC: Quarter Inch Cartridge
234.
RAM - Random-access memory
235.
RAID: Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks
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RAMDAC: Random Access Memory Digital to

Analogue Converter
237.
RAS: Row Address Strobe
238.
RCA: Radio Corporation of America
239.
RCC: Routing Control Center
240.
RDRAM: Rambus DRAM
241.
RFC: Request For Comments
242.
RFI: Radio Frequency Interference
243.
RI: Ring Indicator
244.
RISC: Reduced Instruction-Set Computer
245.
RLL: Run Length Limited
246.
RMS: Root Mean Squared
247.
RMW: Read Modify Write
248.
ROM: Read Only Memory
249.
RPC: Remote Procedure Call
250.
RPM: Rotations Per Minute
251.
RTC: Real Time Clock
252.
RTS: Request To Send
253.
SAM: Sequential Access Memory
254.
SASI: Shugart Associates Standard Interface
255.
SCSI: Small Computer Systems Interface
256.
SD: Single Density
257.
SDLC: Synchronous Data Link Control
258.
SDRAM: Synchronous Dynamic RAM
259.
SDRAM DDR: Double Data Rate SDRAM
260.
SDRAM BDDR: Bi-Directional Strobed DDR
SDRAM
261.
SE: Systems Engineer
262.
SEC: Single Edge Contact
263.
SFF: Small Form Factor
264.
SGRAM: Synchronous Graphics RAM
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SMS : Short Message Service

266.
SIMD: Single-Instruction Multiple-Data
267.
SIMM: Single Inline Memory Module
268.
SIPP: Single Inline Pinned Package
269.
SISD: Single-Instruction Single-Data
270.
SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol
271.
SMD: Surface Mount Device
272.
SMT: Surface Mount Technology
273.
SNA: System Network Architecture
274.
SNR: Signal to Noise Ratio
275.
SOL: Small Out Line
276.
SOIC: Small Outline Integrated Circuit
277.
SPOOL: Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On Line
278.
SPT: Sectors Per Track
279.
SPU: Single Processor Unit
280.
SRAM: Static Random Access Memory
281.
SS: Single Sided
282.
STDM: Synchronous Time Division Multiplexing
283.
STN: Super Twisted Nematic
284.
STU: Streaming Tape Unit
285.
SVGA: Super Video Graphics Array
286.
TCM: Trellis Code Modulation
287.
TCP : Transmission Control Protocol
288.
TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol / Internet
Protocol
289.
TDM: Time Division Multiplexing
290.
TI: Texas Instruments
291.
TIA: Telecomm Industry Association
292.
TLB: Translation-Look aside Buffer
293.
TPI: Tracks Per Inch
294.
TRANSISTOR: TRANSformer resISTOR
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TSR: Terminate and Stay Resident

296.
TTL: Transistor-Transistor Logic
297.
UAE: Unrecoverable Application Error
298.
UART: Universal Asynchronous
Receiver/Transmitter
299.
USART: Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous
Receiver/Transmitter
300.
UDP: User Datagram Protocol
301.
UMB: Upper Memory Block
302.
USB: Universal Serial Bus
303.
UNIX: A trademark used for a computer disk
operating system
304.
UPS - Uninterruptible power supply
305.
USL: UNIX System Labs
306.
UUCP: UNIX to UNIX Copy Program
307.
VIRUS : Vital Information Resources Under Seize
308.
VDU : Visual Display Unit
309.
VBE: Video BIOS Extensions
310.
VCR: Video Cassette RecorderVESA: Video
Enhanced Standards Association
311.
VGA: Video Graphics Array
312.
VLB: VESA Local Bus
313.
VLIW: Very Long Instruction Word
314.
VLSI: Very Large Scale Integration
315.
VM: Virtual Memory
316.
VME: Versa Module Euro-card
317.
VRAM: Video Random Access Memory
318.
VRT: Voltage Reduction Technology
319.
VTR: Video Tape Recorder
320.
WAN : Wide area network
321.
WATS: Wide Area Telephone Service
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WD: Western Digital

WORM: Write Once - Read-Many
WRAM: Window Random Access Memory
WS: Wait State
WWW : World Wide Web
XGA: eXtended Graphics Array
XMS: Extended Memory Specification
XOR: Exclusive-OR
XNOR: Exclusive-NOR
XT: eXtended Technology
ZIF: Zero Insertion Force

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