Computer short forms

1. 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
0. APIC: Advanced Programmable Interrupt
Controller
1. APM: Advanced Power Management
2. ASCII: American Standard Code for
Information Interchange
3. ASIC: Application Specific Integrated
Circuit
4. ASPI: Advanced SCSI Programming
InterfaceAT: Advanced Technology
5. ATA: AT Bus Attachment
6. ATAPI: ATA Packet Interface
7. ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode
8. BBS: Bulletin Board System
9. BCC: Block Check Character
0. BSC: Binary Synchronous
Communications
1. BSD: Berkeley Standard Distribution
2. BTU: British Thermal Units
3. BCD: Binary Coded Decimal
4. BIOS: Basic Input / Output System
5. BNC: Bayonet Nut Connector
6. BPS: Bytes Per Second
7. bps: bits Per Second
8. CAM: Computer Aided Manufacturing
9. CAD: Computer Aided Design
0. CAS: Column Address Strobe
1. CPU : Central Processing Unit
2. CPI: Clocks Per Instruction
3. CR: Carriage Return
4. CUI : Composite User Interface
5. CRT : Cathode Ray Tube
6. CRC: Cyclical Redundancy Check
7. CD: Carrier Detect & Compact Disc
8. CD-R : Compact Disc-Recordable
9. CD-RW : Compact Disc-ReWritable
0. CD-ROM : Compact disc read-only
memory
1. CGA: Color Graphics Adapter
2. CHS: Cylinder Head Sector
3. COMPUTER: Common Oriented Machine
Particularly Used for Trade Education
and Research
4. CMOS: Complementary Metal-Oxide
Semiconductor
5. CPLD: Complex Programmable Logic
Device
6. CSR: Command Status Register
7. CRC: Cyclic Redundancy Check
8. CTS: Clear To Send
9. DVI : Digital Visual Interface
0. DVD : Digital Video Disc or Digital
Versatile Disc
1. DAT: Digital Audio Tape
2. DC: Direct Current
3. DCD: Data Carrier Detect
4. DCE: Data Circuit-terminating Equipment
5. DD: Double Density
6. DEC: Digital Equipment Corporation
7. DIMM: Dual Inline Memory Module
8. DIP: Dual-In-line Package
9. DMA: Direct Memory Access
0. DMI: Desktop Management Interface
1. DOS: Disk Operating System
2. DPE: Data Parity Error
3. DRAM: Dynamic Random Access Memory
4. DS: Double Sided
5. DSP: Digital Signal Processor
6. DSR: Data Set Ready
7. DTA: Disk Transfer Area
8. DTC: Data Terminal Controller
9. DTE: Data Terminating Equipment
0. DTR: Data Terminal Ready
1. EBCDIC: Extended Binary Coded Decimal
Interchange Code
2. EC: Error Check
3. ECC: Error Check and Correction
4. ECP: Enhanced Communication Port
5. ECU: EISA Configuration Utility
6. EDO: Extended Data Out RAM
7. EEPROM: Electrically Erasable
Programmable Read Only Memory
8. EGA: Enhanced Graphics Adapter
9. EIA: Electronic Industries Association
0. EIDE: Enhanced Integrated Device
Electronics
1. EISA: Enhanced Industry Standard
Architecture
2. EMI: Electro-Magnetic Interference
3. EMF: Electro-Magnetic Force
4. EMM: Expanded Memory Manager
5. EMS: Expanded Memory Specification
6. EOF: End Of File
7. EOL: End Of Line
8. EPP: Enhanced Parallel Port
9. EPROM: Erasable Programmable Read
Only Memory
0. ESCD: Extended System Configuration
Data
1. ESD: Electro-Static Discharge
2. ESDI: Enhanced Small Devices Interface
3. FTP – File Transfer Protocol
4. FAT: File Allocation Table
5. FCC: Federal Communications
Commission
6. FDD: Fixed/Floppy Disk Drive
7. FDDI: Fiber Distributed Data Interface
8. FDM: Frequency Division Multiplexing
9. FDX: Full-Duplex Transmission
0. FE: Front End
1. FEP: Front End Processor
2. FF: Form Feed
3. FIFO: First-In First-Out
4. FILO: First-In Last-Out
5. FM: Frequency Modulation
6. FPGA: Field Programmable Gate Array
7. FPM: Fast Page Mode RAM
8. FPU: Floating Point Unit
9. FRC: Functional Redundancy Checking
0. FRU: Field-Replaceable Unit
1. FSF: Free Software Foundation
2. FSK: Frequency Shifty Keying
3. GUI : Graphical user interface
4. GAS: Gallium Arsenide
5. GFLOPS: Billions of Floating Point
Operations Per Second
6. HTML : Hyper Text Markup Language
7. HD: High Density
8. HDD: Hard Disk Drive
9. HDX: Half-Duplex Transmission
0. HFS: Hierarchical File System
1. HPFS: High Performance File System
2. IBM : International Business Machines
3. I/O: Input/Output
4. IC: Integrated Circuit
5. IDE: Integrated Device Electronics
6. IEEE: Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers
7. IMP: Interface Message Processor
8. IP: Internet Protocol
9. IPC: Inter Process Communication
0. IPX: Inter network Packet eXchange
1. IRQ: Interrupt ReQuest
2. ISA: Industry Standard Architecture
3. ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network
4. ISO: International Standards Organization
5. ISR: Interrupt Service Routine
6. IVT: Interrupt Vector Table
7. JFS: Journalized File System
8. KNI: Katmai New Instructions
9. KVA: KiloVolt-Amps
0. LBA: Linear Block Array / Addressing
1. LCD : Liquid crystal display
2. LAN : Local area network
3. LOGO : Language of Graphic-Oriented
4. LED: Light Emitting Diode
5. LF: Line Feed
6. LIF : Low Insertion Force
7. LIM: Lotus/Intel/Microsoft’s Expanded
Memory Manager
8. LRU: Least-Recently Used
9. LSB: Least Significant Byte/bit
0. LSI: Large Scale Integration
1. LUN: Logical Unit Number
2. LASER : Light Amplification by
Stimulated Emission of Radiation
3. MAN : Metropolitan area network
4. MESI: Modified/Exclusive/Shared/Invalid
5. MIPS : Microprocessor without
Interlocked Pipeline Stages
6. MSo : Micro Soft Office, Multi system
operator
7. MB/Mb: Mega Bytes/bits
8. MBR: Master Boot Record
9. MCA: Micro Channel Architecture
0. MCGA: Multi-Color Graphics Array
1. MCM: Multi-Chip Module
2. MDRAM: Multi-bank RAM
3. MFLOPS: Millions of FLOating Point
Operations per Second
4. MFM: Modified Frequency Modulated
5. MHz: MegaHertz
6. MICR: Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
7. MIDI: Musical Instrument Data Interface
8. MIMD: Multiple-Instruction Multiple-
Data
9. MISD: Multiple-Instruction Single Data
0. MMX: Multi-Media Extensions
1. MNP: Microcom Network Protocol
2. MODEM: MOdulator / DEModulator
3. MOPS: Millions of Operations Per Second
4. MOS: Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
5. MP: Multi-Processor
6. MPP: Massively Parallel Processor
7. MPS: Multi-Processor System
8. MSB: Most Significant Byte/bit
9. MSDOS: Microsoft’s Disk Operating
System
0. SI: Medium Scale Integration
1. MTBF: Mean Time Between Failure
2. N/C: No-Connect
3. NBS: National Bureau of Standards
4. NEMA: National Electrical Manufacturers
Association
5. NFS: Network File System
6. NFU: Not-Frequently Used
7. NIC: Network Interface Card
8. NMI: Non-Maskable Interrupt
9. NMOS: Negatively doped Metal-Oxide
Semiconductor
0. NOP: No OPeration NRU Not-Recently
Used
1. NOS: Network Operating System
2. NSF: National Science Foundation
3. NTFS: New Technology File System
4. NVRAM: NonVolatile Random Access
Memory
5. OCR: Optical Character Recognition
6. ODI: Open Data link Interface
7. OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer
8. OS: Operating System
9. OSF: Open Software Foundation
0. OSI: Open Systems Interconnect
1. PAL: Programmable Array Logic
2. PB: Push Button
3. PBX: Private Branch eXtender
4. PC: Personal Computer, Program Counter
5. PCB: Printed Circuit Board
6. PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect
7. PCM: Pulse Code Modulation
8. PCMCIA: Personal Computer Memory
Card International Association
9. PE: Processor Element
0. PFF: Page Fault Frequency
1. PGA: Professional Graphics Array
2. PGA: Pin Grid Array
3. PIC: Programmable Interrupt Controller
4. PIO: Programmed Input / Output
5. PIROM: Processor Information ROM
6. PLA: Programmable Logic Array
7. PLCC: Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier
8. PLD: Programmable Logic Devices
9. PLL: Phase Locked Loop
0. PM: Preventive Maintenance
1. PMOS: Positively doped Metal-Oxide
Semiconductor
2. PnP: Plug-and-Play
3. POST: Power On Self Test
4. PPP: Point-to-Point Protocol
5. PQFP: Plastic Quad Flat Pack
6. PROM: Programmable Read Only Memory
7. PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Network
8. PSP: Program Segment Prefix
9. PTE: Page Table Entry
0. QAM: Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
1. QFP: Quad Flat Pack
2. QIC: Quarter Inch Cartridge
3. RAM – Random-access memory
4. RAID: Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive
Disks
5. RAMDAC: Random Access Memory Digital
to Analogue Converter
6. RAS: Row Address Strobe
7. RCA: Radio Corporation of America
8. RCC: Routing Control Center
9. RDRAM: Rambus DRAM
0. RFC: Request For Comments
1. RFI: Radio Frequency Interference
2. RI: Ring Indicator
3. RISC: Reduced Instruction-Set Computer
4. RLL: Run Length Limited
5. RMS: Root Mean Squared
6. RMW: Read Modify Write
7. ROM: Read Only Memory
8. RPC: Remote Procedure Call
9. RPM: Rotations Per Minute
0. RTC: Real Time Clock
1. RTS: Request To Send
2. SAM: Sequential Access Memory
3. SASI: Shugart Associates Standard
Interface
4. SCSI: Small Computer Systems Interface
5. SD: Single Density
6. SDLC: Synchronous Data Link Control
7. SDRAM: Synchronous Dynamic RAM
8. SDRAM DDR: Double Data Rate SDRAM
9. SDRAM BDDR: Bi-Directional Strobed
DDR SDRAM
0. SE: Systems Engineer
1. SEC: Single Edge Contact
2. SFF: Small Form Factor
3. SGRAM: Synchronous Graphics RAM
4. SMS : Short Message Service
5. SIMD: Single-Instruction Multiple-Data
6. SIMM: Single Inline Memory Module
7. SIPP: Single Inline Pinned Package
8. SISD: Single-Instruction Single-Data
9. SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol
0. SMD: Surface Mount Device
1. SMT: Surface Mount Technology
2. SNA: System Network Architecture
3. SNR: Signal to Noise Ratio
4. SOL: Small Out Line
5. SOIC: Small Outline Integrated Circuit
6. SPOOL: Simultaneous Peripheral
Operation On Line
7. SPT: Sectors Per Track
8. SPU: Single Processor Unit
9. SRAM: Static Random Access Memory
0. SS: Single Sided
1. STDM: Synchronous Time Division
Multiplexing
2. STN: Super Twisted Nematic
3. STU: Streaming Tape Unit
4. SVGA: Super Video Graphics Array
5. TCM: Trellis Code Modulation
6. TCP : Transmission Control Protocol
7. TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol /
Internet Protocol
8. TDM: Time Division Multiplexing
9. TI: Texas Instruments
0. TIA: Telecomm Industry Association
1. TLB: Translation-Look aside Buffer
2. TPI: Tracks Per Inch
3. TRANSISTOR: TRANSformer resISTOR
4. TSR: Terminate and Stay Resident
5. TTL: Transistor-Transistor Logic
6. UAE: Unrecoverable Application Error
7. UART: Universal Asynchronous Receiver/
Transmitter
8. USART: Universal Synchronous/
Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
9. UDP: User Datagram Protocol
0. UMB: Upper Memory Block
1. USB: Universal Serial Bus
2. UNIX: A trademark used for a computer
disk operating system
3. UPS – Uninterruptible power supply
4. USL: UNIX System Labs
5. UUCP: UNIX to UNIX Copy Program
6. VIRUS : Vital Information Resources
Under Seize
7. VDU : Visual Display Unit
8. VBE: Video BIOS Extensions
9. VCR: Video Cassette Recorder
0. VESA: Video Enhanced Standards
Association
1. VGA: Video Graphics Array
2. VLB: VESA Local Bus
3. VLIW: Very Long Instruction Word
4. VLSI: Very Large Scale Integration
5. VM: Virtual Memory
6. VME: Versa Module Euro-car
7. VRAM: Video Random Access Memory
8. VRT: Voltage Reduction Technology
9. VTR: Video Tape Recorder
0. WAN : Wide area network
1. WATS: Wide Area Telephone Service
2. WD: Western Digital
3. WORM: Write Once – Read-Many
4. WRAM: Window Random Access Memory
5. WS: Wait State
6. WWW : World Wide Web
7. XGA: eXtended Graphics Array
8. XMS: Extended Memory Specification
9. XOR: Exclusive-OR
0. XNOR: Exclusive-NOR
1. XT: eXtended Technology
2. ZIF: Zero Insertion Force