COMPUTER ABBREVIATIONS

A
ABI Application Binary Interface
ABR Available Bit Rate
ADSL Assymetric Digital Subscriber Line
ADC Analog to Digital Converter
AI Artificial Intelligence
ALGOL Algorithmic Language
ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit
ANSI American National Standards Institute
API Application Programming Interface
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
APRANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
American Standard Code for Information
ASCII Interchange
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
AUI Attachment Unit Interface
AVI Audio Video Interleave

B
BASCI Beginner's All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BCC Blind Carbon Copy
BCD Binary Coded Decimal
BER Bit Error Rate
BHTML Broadcast Hyper Text Markup Language
BINAC Binary Automatic Computer
BIOS Basic Input Output System
BIU Bus Interface Unit
BMP Bitmap
BPS Bits Per Seconds

C
CAD Computer Aided Design
CADD Computer Aided Drafting and Design
CAE Computer Aided Engineering
CAI Computer Aided Instruction
CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing
CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering
CAQ Computer Aided Quality Assurance

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CCNA CISCO Certified Network Associate
CD Compact Disc
CD RW Compact Disc ReWritable
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CDROM Compact Disc Read Only Memory
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CISC Complex Instruction Set Computer
CLR Common Language Runtime
CMOS Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
COBOL Common Business Oriented Language
CPI Clock Cycle Per Instruction
CPU Central Processing Unit
CRM Customer Relationship Management
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CUI Character User Interface

D
DAC Digital to Analog Converter
DBA Data Base Administrator
DBMS Data Base Management System
DCL Data Control Language
DDL Data Definition Language
DES Data Encryption Standard
DFD Data Flow Diagram
DFS Distributed File System
DHPC Dynamic Host Control Protocol
DHTML Dynamic Hyper Text Markup Language
DLC Data Link Control
DLL Dynamic Link Library
DMA Direct Memory Access
DML Data Manipulation Language
DNS Domain Name System
DOM Document Object Model
DOS Disk Operating System
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
DSL Digital Subscriber Line
DSN Digital Subscriber Network
DTD Document Type Definition
DVD Digital Versatile Disc

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E
EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol
EAROM Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory
EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EDC Electronic Digital Computer
Electrically Erasable Programmable Random
EEPROM Access Memory
ELF Executable and Linkable Format
E-Mail Electronic Mail
ENIAC Electronics Numerical Integrator and Calculator
EPROM Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EROM Erasable Read Only Memory
ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
EULA End User License Agreement

F
FAT File Allocation Table
FCS Frame Check Sequence
FDD Floppy Disk Drive
FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
FORTRAN Formula Translation
FPS Frames Per Second
FPU Floating Point Unit
FRAM Ferro Electric Random Access Memory
FTP File Transfer Protocol

G
GB Gigabyte
GIF Graphics Interchange Format
GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out
GPU Graphics Processing Unit
GUI Graphical User Interface

H
HCI Human Computer Interaction
HDD Hard Disk Drive
HID Human Interface Device
HLL High Level Language
HP Hewlett Packard
HTML Hyper Text Markup Language

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HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

I
I/O Input/Output
IBM International Business Machine
IC Integrated Circuit
ICP Internet Cache Protocol
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
IE Internet Explorer
IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol
iOS iphone Operating System
IP Internet Protocol
IRC Internet Relay Chat
IRQ Interrupt Request
ISDN International Services Digital Network
ISOC Internet Society
ISP Internet Service Provider
ISR Interrupt Service Routine
IT Information Technology

J
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
JRE Java Runtime Environment
JS JavaScript

K
KB Kilobyte
KBPS Kilobits Per Second
kHz Kilohertz
KVM
Switch Keyboard, Video and Mouse Switch

L
L2TP Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
LAN Local Area Network
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LED Light Emitting Diode
LOC Lines of Code
LSB Least Significant Bit

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LSI Large Scale Integration

M
MAC
Address Media Access Control Address
MAN Metropolitan Area Network
MB Megabyte
MBPS Megabits Per Second
MDI Multiple Document Interface
MDS Microcomputer Development System
MFT Master File Table
MICR Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIPS Million Instructions Per Second
MISD Multiple Instruction Single Data
MMS Multimedia Messaging Service
MODEM Modulator-Demodulator
MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group
MS Microsoft
MSB Most Significant Bit
MSDN Microsoft Developer Network
MTU Maximum Transmission Unit

N
NAS Network-attached Storage
National Association of Software and Services
NASSCOM Companies
NCP Network Control Protocol
NDIS Network Driver Interface Specification
NFS Network File System
NOS Network Operating System
NTFS New Technology File System
NTP Network Time Protocol

O
OCR Optical Character Recognition
ODBC Open Database Connectivity
OLE Object Linking and Embedding
OMR Optical Mark Reader
OOP Object-Oriented Programming

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OOPS Object Oriented Programming System
OPML Outline Processor Markup Language
OS Operating System
OSI Open System Interconnection
OSS Open Source Software

P
PAN Personal Area Network
PAP Password Authentication Protocol
PC Personal Computer
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCL Printer Command Language
Personal Computer Memory Card International
PCMCIA Association
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
PDF Portable Document Format
PDL Page Description Language
PDU Protocol Data Unit
PLA Programmable Logic Array
PLC Programmable Logic Controller
PNG Portable Network Graphics
PNP Plug N Play
PPP Peer-to-Point Protocol
PPTP Point to Point Tunnelling Protocol
PROM Programmable Read Only Memory
PSU Power Supply Unit

Q
QDR Quad Data Rate
QoS Quality of Service
QBE Query by Example

R
RADSL Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line
RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RAM Random Access Memory
Random Access Memory Digital to Analog
RAMDAC Converter
RARP Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
RAS Remote Access Services

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RDRAM Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory
RDBMS Relational Data Base Management System
RIP Raster Image Processor
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer
ROM Read Only Memory
RPC Remote Procedure Call
RTC Real Time Clock
RTF Rich Text Format
RTOS Real Time Operating System

S
SACK Selective Acknowledgement
SAN Storage Area Network
SAP Service Access Point
SAP Systems Applications Products
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
SD RAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SDD Software Design Document
SDK Software Development Kit
SDL Storage Definition Language
SDN Software-Defined Networking
SDSL Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line
SG RAM Synchronous Graphics Random Access Memory
SGML Standard Generalised Markup Language
SIM Subscriber Identity Module
SIU Serial Interface Unit
SMS Short Message Service
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
SQA Statistical Quality Assurance
SQL Structured Query Language
SRAM Static Random Access memory
SRS Software Requirements Specification
SW Software

T
TB Terabyte
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TDI Transport Driver Interface
TDMA Time-Division Multiple Access
TTS Text To Speech

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U
UAC User Account Control
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UI User Interface
UML Unified Modelling Language
UNIVAC Universal Automatic Computer
UNIX Uniplexed Information and Computing Service
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
URL Uniform Resource Locator
URN Uniform Resource Name
USB Universal Serial Bus
USRT Universal Synchronous Receiver-Transmitter
UTP Untwisted Shielded Pair

V
VLAN Virtual Local Area Network
VB Visual Basic
VCD Video Compact Disc
VDU Visual Display Unit
VFS Virtual File System
VGA Video Graphics Array
VLSI Very Large Scale Integrated
VPN Virtual Private Network
VRAM Video Random Access Memory

W
WAN Wide Area Network
WAP Wireless Application Protocol
WiFi Wireless Fidelity
WiMAX Wireless Interoperability for Microwave Access
WORM Write Once Read Many
WWW World Wide Web
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get

X
XAML Extensible Application Markup Language
XHTML Extensible Hyper Text Markup Language

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XML Extension Markup Language
XSL Extensible Stylesheet Language

Z
ZB Zettabyte
ZIP Zone Information Protocol
ZISC Zero Instruction Set Computer

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