| 3GP |
3rd Generation Project |
| 3GPP |
3rd Generation Partnership Project |
| AAC |
Advanced Audio Coding |
| ACID |
Atomicity Consistency Isolation Durability |
| ADSL |
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line |
| AFAIK |
(as far as I know; email) |
| AGP |
Advanced Graphics Port |
| AI |
Artificial Intelligence |
| AIM |
AOL Instant Messenger |
| ALGOL |
Algorithmic Language |
| ALGOL |
Algorithmic Language |
| ALT |
ALTernate lifestyle (USENET newsgroup category) |
| ALU |
Arithmetic Logic Unit |
| ANSI |
American National Standards Institute |
| AOL |
America Online |
| 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 |
| ASP |
Association of Shareware Professionals |
| ASPI |
Advanced SCSI Programming Interface (Adaptec) |
| AT |
Advanced Technology |
| ATA |
Advanced Technology Attachment (original hard drive interface) |
| ATDT |
Attention Dial Tone (modem command) |
| ATM |
Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| ATZ |
Attention Restore configuration profile from nonvolatile RAM (modem command) |
| AUI |
Attachment Unit Interface |
| AUTOEXEC |
Autoexec Automatic Execution file (AUTOEXEC.BAT automatically executed on startup of DOS systems) |
| AVI |
Audio Video Interleave |
| AWK |
(Unix language named after its authors… Al Aho, Peter Weinberger and Brian Kernighan) |
| B Keyboard |
Kilobyte (1,024 bytes; also kB) |
| B2B |
Business to Business |
| B2C |
Business to Consumer |
| 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 |
| BPS |
Bits Per Second + Bytes Per Second |
| BRD |
Blu-Ray Disc |
| BsoD |
Blue (or black) Screen of Death( Windows just died (again) |
| CAD |
Computer Aided Design |
| CADD |
Computer Aided Design and Drafting |
| CAI |
Computer Aided Instruction |
| CAM |
Computer Aided Manufacturing |
| CAN |
Campus Area Network |
| CC |
Carbon Copy |
| CCITT |
Comite Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique/ |
| CD |
Compact Disk |
| CD |
Change Directory (UNIX/DOS) |
| CD0R/W |
Compact Disk – Rewritable |
| CDMA |
Code-Division Multiple Access (wireless/cellphone protocol) |
| CDPD |
Cellular Digital Packet Data (wireless protocol) |
| 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 |
| CERN |
The European Particle Physics Laboratory (initials originally from Conseil European pour la Recherche Nucleaire) |
| CERT |
Computer Emergency Response Team) |
| CGI-BIN |
Common Gateway Interface – Binary (programming for Web forms) |
| CIS |
CompuServe Information Service |
| CISC |
Complex Instructions Set Computers |
| CMD |
Command |
| CMOS |
Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (type of nonvolatile memory chip) + PC Configuration stored on CMOS |
| CMYK |
Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black (color model) |
| CNM |
Circulatory Network Mode |
| COAX |
Coaxial Cable (for Ethernet and similar networks) |
| COBOL |
Common Business Oriented Language |
| COM1 |
First serial Port (asynchronous port) |
| COM2 |
Second serial Port |
| COMDEX |
Computer Dealers Exposition (biggest yearly U.S. computer show) |
| 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( standard type computer monitor display |
| CSID |
Call Subscriber ID (for FAX and phone caller ID) |
| CSLIP |
Compressed Serial Line Interface Protocol (Internet) |
| CSS |
Cascading Style Sheets |
| CSV |
Comma-Separated Value/Variable (file type) |
| CTRL |
Control (computer keyboard key) |
| CUI |
Character User Interface |
| DAC |
Data Acquisition and Control + Digital to Analog Converter |
| DARPANET |
Defense Advanced Research Project Agency Network |
| DAT |
Digital Audio Tape |
| dB |
Decibel |
| DBMS |
Data Base Management System |
| DCD |
Data Carrier Detect |
| DCE |
Data Communications Equipment + Distributed Computing Environment OSF) + Distributed Computing Equipment |
| DCF |
Data Communication Facility(IBM) + |
| DDE |
Direct Data Entry + Dynamic Data Exchange (Microsoft) |
| DDL |
Data Definition Language |
| DDR |
Double Data Rate (double=speed of RAM) |
| DDR – SDRAM |
Double Data Rate – Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| DHCP |
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DHTML |
Dynamics Hyper Text Markup Language |
| DIMM |
Dual Inline Memory Module |
| DIN |
Deutsche Industrie Norm (German equivalent of EIA) |
| DIP |
Dual In-line Package (e.g., DIP switches) |
| DIR |
Directory (file) |
| DLL |
Dynamic Link Library |
| DMA |
Direct Memory Access/Addressing |
| DML |
Data Manipulation Language |
| DNA |
Distributed Internet Architecture |
| DNS |
Domain Name System |
| DOC |
Data Optimizing Computer |
| Doc |
Document |
| DOS |
Disk Operating System |
| DPI |
Dots Per Inch |
| DRAM |
Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| DSL |
Digital Subscriber Line( fast Internet connection over existing phone lines |
| DSTN |
Double Supertwisted Nematic (LCD screen type) |
| DTMF |
Dual Tone Multiple Frequency (phone tones) |
| DUN |
Dial-Up Networking (Microsoft) |
| DVD |
Digital Video/Versatile Disc |
| DVDR |
Digital Versatile Disk Recordable |
| DVDRW |
Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable |
| DVI |
Digital Visual Interface |
| DVR |
Digital Video Recorder |
| EB |
EXA BYTE |
| EBCDIC |
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (IBM) (is to ASCII as Sanskrit is to English) |
| ECC |
Error Check Code + Error Checking and Correction + Error Correction Code |
| E-Commerce |
Electronic Commerce |
| ECP |
Enhanced Capabilities Port (Microsoft) |
| EDC |
Electronic Digital Computer |
| EDGE |
Enhanced Data Rate for GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) Evolution |
| EDI |
Electronic Data Interchange |
| EDO |
Extended Data Out (RAM) |
| EDP |
Electronic Data Processing |
| EDSAC |
Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator |
| EEPROM |
Electronically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory |
| EFS |
Encrypted File System |
| EiB |
EXBI BYTE |
| EIDE |
Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics (hard drive interface) |
| EISA |
Extended Industry Standard Architecture (PC bus design) |
| EMACS |
Editing Macros (Unix editor) |
| E-Mail |
Electronic Mail |
| ENIAC |
Electronics Numerical Integrator And Calculator |
| EOF |
End of File (^Z character) |
| EPP |
Enhanced Parallel Port |
| EPROM |
Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory |
| EROM |
Erasable Read Only Memory |
| ESDI |
Enhanced Small Device Interface |
| EWAN |
Emulator Without A Good Name (Internet) |
| FAQ |
Frequently Asked Question |
| FAT |
File Allocation Table |
| FDC |
Floppy Disk Controller |
| FDD |
Floppy Disk Drive |
| FDISK |
Fixed Disk (DOS utility) |
| FIFO |
First-In, First-Out |
| FLOPS |
Floating Point Operations Per Second |
| FM |
Frequency Modulation |
| FORTRAN |
Formula Translation |
| FPM F |
ast Page Mode (RAM) |
| FPS |
Frames Per Second |
| FS |
File System |
| FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
| FYI |
For Your Information |
| GB |
Giga Byte |
| GBPS |
Gigabytes/Gigabits Per Second |
| GDI |
Graphical Device Interface |
| GHz |
GigaHertz |
| GiB |
GIBI BYTE |
| GIF |
Graphic Interchangeable Format |
| GIGO |
Garbage In Garbage Out |
| GIS |
Geographic Information System |
| GML |
Geography Markup Language |
| GNU |
Gnu’s Not Unix (operating system that really IS Unix) |
| GPRS |
General Packet Radio Service |
| GPS |
Global Positioning Satellite/System |
| GSM |
Global System for Mobile Communication |
| GUI |
Graphical User Interface |
| GW-basic |
Gee Whiz BASIC |
| HD |
Hard Disk |
| HDD |
Hard Disk Drive |
| HDMI |
High Definition Multimedia Interface |
| HDSL |
High-Data-Rate Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) + High-Speed Digital Subscriber Loop |
| HDTV |
High Definition Television |
| HEX |
Hexadecimal |
| HP |
Hewlett Packard/Horse Power |
| HPC |
Handheld Personal Computer/High Performance Computer |
| HPFS |
High-Performance File System (Windows NT) |
| HPGL |
Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language |
| HPIB |
Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus |
| HPLJ |
Hewlett-Packard Laser Jet |
| HSDPA |
High Speed Downlink Packet Access |
| HSV |
Hue Saturation Value (color model) |
| HTML |
Hyper Text Markup Language |
| HTTP |
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol |
| HTTP-NG |
HTTP Next Generation |
| HTTPS |
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure |
| HVD |
Holographic Versatile Disc |
| Hz |
Hertz (frequency, per second) |
| I/O |
Input/Output (serial and parallel ports) |
| IBM |
International Business Machines |
| IC |
Integrated Circuit |
| ICANN |
Internet Corporation of Assign Names & Numbers |
| ICT |
Information Communication Technology |
| IDE |
Integrated Development Environment (Borland) + Integrated Drive Electronics + Intelligent Drive Electronics |
| IEEE |
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineer |
| IMAP |
Internet Message Access Protocol |
| IMAP4 |
Internet Message Access Protocol Version 4 |
| IMHO |
(in my humble opinion; email) |
| INFO |
Information |
| INTEL |
Integrated Electronics |
| IO |
Input Output |
| IOP |
Input Output Processor |
| IP |
Internet Protocol |
| IPV4 |
Internet Protocol Version 4 |
| IPV6 |
Internet Protocol Version 6 |
| IPX |
Internetwork Packet Exchange (Novell) |
| IR Infrared |
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| IrDA |
Infrared Data Association (Ir port standard) |
| IRQ |
Interrupt Request (PC hardware signal) |
| ISA |
Industry Standard Architecture |
| ISDN |
Integrated Services Digital Network (digital phone line) |
| ISO |
International Standard Organization/ International Org for Standardisation |
| ISP |
Internet Service Provider |
| IT |
Information Technology |
| IVR |
Interactive Voice Response |
| I-WAY |
Information Highway |
| J2EE |
Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition |
| JAD |
Java Application Descriptor/Development |
| JAR |
Java Archive |
| JPEG |
Joint Photographic Expert Group |
| JS |
Java Script |
| JSP |
Java Server Page |
| KB |
KILOBYTE |
| KBD |
Key Board |
| Kbps |
Kilobits/Kilobytes Per Second |
| kHz |
Kilohertz |
| LAN |
Local Area Network |
| LCD |
Liquid Crystal Display |
| LED |
Light Emitting Diode |
| LF |
Line Feed |
| LIF |
Low Insertion Force |
| LINUX |
(Free-Source version of UNIX Operating system named after Linus Torvalds) |
| LLL |
Low Level Language |
| LPI |
Lines Per Inch |
| LPT |
Line Printer |
| LPT1 |
First Parallel Printer Port |
| LPT2 |
Second Parallel Printer Port |
| LQ |
Letter Quality |
| LSI |
Large Scale Integration |
| LZW |
Lempel-Ziv-Walsh (algorithm) |
| MAC |
Media Access Control |
| MAN |
Metropolitan Area Network |
| MANET |
Mobile Ad-Hoc Network |
| MB |
Motherboard/ Megabyte |
| MBASIC |
Microsoft BASIC (Microsoft) |
| MBPS |
Megabits/Megabytes Per Second |
| Mbps |
Megabits Per Second |
| MD |
Make Directory (DOS/Unix) |
| MEG |
Megabyte |
| MFS |
Macintosh File System (Macintosh) |
| MHz |
Mega Hertz |
| MICR |
Magnetic Ink Character Recognition |
| MIDI |
Musical Instrument Digital Interface |
| MIME |
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
| MIPS |
Million Instructions Per Second |
| MMX |
Multimedia Extensions (additional CPU instructions) |
| MODEM |
Modulator Demodulator |
| Mp3 |
MPEG Audio Layer 3 |
| Mp4 |
MPEG – 4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding) |
| MPC |
Multimedia Personal Computer (Microsoft) |
| MPEG |
Motion Picture Experts Group |
| MSCDEX |
Microsoft Compact Disc Extension |
| MS-DOS |
Microsoft – Disk Operating System |
| MSIE |
Microsoft Internet Explorer (Microsoft) |
| MTBF |
Mean Time Between Failures |
| NAT |
Network Address Translation |
| NCSA |
National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
| NIC |
Network Interface Card |
| NICAD |
Nickel Cadmium |
| NIIT |
National Institute of Information Technology |
| NIMH |
Nickel-Metal Hydride |
| NNTP |
Network News Transfer Protocol (Internet) |
| NSFNET |
National Science Foundation Network |
| NTFS |
New Technology File System |
| NTP |
Network Time Protocol |
| OCR |
Optical Character Reader / Recognition |
| OCX |
OLE Custom Control |
| OLE |
Object Linking and Embedding (Microsoft) |
| OMR |
Optical Mark Reader/Recognition |
| OOP |
Object Oriented Programming |
| OPEN GL |
Open Graphics Library |
| OS |
Operating System |
| OSI |
Open Systems Interconnection |
| P2P |
Point to Point Protocol |
| PAN |
Personal Area Network |
| PB |
PETA BYTE |
| PBSRAM |
Pipeline Burst RAM |
| PC |
Personal Computer |
| PCB |
Printer Circuit Board |
| PC-DOS |
Personal Computer – Disk Operating System (IBM) |
| PCI |
Peripheral Component Interconnect |
| PCMCIA |
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association |
| PD |
Public Domain |
| PDA |
Personal Digital Assistant |
| PDF |
Portable Document Format |
| PDU |
Protocol Data Unit / Power Distribution Unit |
| PGP |
Pretty Good Privacy (name of encryption program) |
| PHP |
Hypertext Preprocessor |
| PiB |
PEBI BYTE |
| PIM |
Personal Information Manager |
| PING |
Packet Internet/Internetwork Groper |
| PIXEL |
Picture Element |
| PNG |
Portable Network Graphics |
| PNP |
Plug and Play |
| POP |
Post Office Protocol (protocol for distributing email) |
| POP3 |
Post Office Protocol Version3 |
| Popmail |
email via POP |
| POST |
Power On Self Test |
| PPM |
Pages Per Minute |
| PPP |
Point to Point Protocol |
| PPPoA |
Point to Point Protocol Over ATM |
| PPPoE |
Point to Point Protocol Over Ethernet |
| PRN |
Printer |
| PROM |
Programmable Read Only Memory |
| PRTSC |
Print Screen |
| PSU |
Power Supply Unit |
| RAID |
Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks + Redundant Arrays of Independent Drives + Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks |
| RAM |
Random Access Memory |
| RARP |
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol |
| RDBMS |
Relational Data Base Management System |
| RDRAM |
Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| REM |
Remark (comment) |
| RGB |
Red-Green-Blue (color model) |
| RIMM |
Rambus Inline Memory Module |
| RIP |
Routing Information Protocol |
| RISC |
Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
| RJ-11 |
Standard U.S. phone connector |
| RJ-45 |
Standard Ethernet connector |
| RLL |
Run Length Limited (encoding scheme for hard disks) |
| RLSI |
Ridiculously Large-Scale Integration |
| RMA |
Return Material Authorization + Return to Manufacturer Authorization |
| RMDIR |
Remove Directory (DOS/Unix) |
| RN |
Read News (Internet) |
| ROM |
Read Only Memory |
| ROTFL |
(rolling on the floor laughing; email) |
| RPM |
Revolutions Per Minute |
| RTF |
Rich Text Format |
| SAM |
Software Asset Management/Sequential Access Method |
| SAN |
Storage Area Network |
| SCSI |
Small Computer System Interface (for hard drives, scanners, etc.) |
| SDD |
Solid State Drive |
| SDRAM |
Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| SFTP |
Secure File Transfer Protocol |
| SG |
Message |
| SGML |
Standard Generalized Markup Language |
| SGRAM |
Synchronous Graphics RAM |
| SIM |
Subscriber Identity Module |
| SIMM |
Single In-line Memory Module |
| SIP |
Session Initiation Protocol |
| SIPP |
Single In-line Pin Package |
| SIU |
Serial Interface Unit |
| SLIP |
Serial Line Interface Protocol |
| SMIME |
Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension |
| SMPS |
Switch Mode Power Supply |
| SMS |
Short Message Service s |
| SMTP |
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SNAP |
Sub Network Access Protocol |
| SNMP |
Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SNOBOL |
String Oriented Symbolic Language |
| SO-DIMM |
Small Outline DIMM |
| SQL |
Structured Query Language |
| SRAM |
Static Random Access Memory |
| SSH |
Secure Shell |
| SSL |
Secure Sockets Layer |
| SVGA |
Super Video Graphics Array |
| SW |
Software |
| SYSOP |
System Operator |
| TAPI |
Telephony Application Programming Interface |
| TB |
TERA BYTE |
| TBPS |
Tera Bytes Per Second |
| TCP |
Transmission Control Protocol |
| TCP/IP |
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TDMA |
Tone-Division Multiple Access wireless/cellphone protocol |
| Tel Net |
Telecommunication Networking |
| TEMP |
Temporary |
| TFT |
Thin Film Transistor |
| TFTP |
Trivial File Transfer Protocol |
| Thomas |
The (U.S.) House (of Representatives) Open Multimedia Access System |
| TiB |
TEBI BYTE |
| TIFF |
Tagged Image File Format |
| TIPS |
Trillion Instruction Per Second |
| TMP |
Temporary |
| TWAIN |
Technology Without Any Interesting Name (connection between application and scanner software) |
| TXT |
Text |
| UAE |
Unrecoverable Application Error |
| UART |
Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter |
| UDMA |
Ultra Direct Memory Access |
| UDP |
User Datagram Protocol |
| UHF |
Ultra High Frequency |
| UI |
User Interface |
| UMB |
Upper Memory Block (LIM/AST) |
| UMTS |
Universal Mobile Telecommunication System |
| UNIVAC |
Universal Automatic Computer/Universal Non Integrated Vacuum Actuated Computer |
| UNIX |
(AT&T Bell Laboratories Operating System) |
| UPS |
Uninterruptible Power Supply |
| UPS |
Uninterruptible Power Supply |
| URL |
Uniform Resource Locator |
| URL |
Uniform Resource Locator |
| USB |
Universal Serial Bus |
| USB |
Universal Serial Bus |
| USE |
NET User’s Network (Internet) |
| UUCP |
Unix-To-Unix Copy Program |
| UXGA |
Ultra XGA; see XGA; 1600×1200 pixels |
| VAN |
Value Added Network |
| VAX/VMS |
Virtual Address Extension/Virtual Memory System (DEC) |
| VCD |
Video Compact Disk |
| VDT |
Video Dial Tone + Video Display Terminal |
| VDU |
Visual Display Unit |
| VFAT |
Virtual File Allocation Table (Microsoft) |
| VGA |
Video Graphics Array |
| VGA |
Video/Visual Graphic Adapter |
| VGA |
Video Graphics Array( IBM/Windows 640×480 color graphics display standard |
| VHF |
Very High Frequency |
| VIRUS |
Vital Information Resource Under Seized |
| VIRUS |
Vital Information Resource Under Siege |
| VOIP |
Voice Over Internet Protocol |
| VOIP |
Voice Over Internet Protocol |
| VPN |
Virtual Private Network |
| VRAM |
Video Random Access Memory |
| VRAM |
Video Random Access Memory |
| VRML |
Virtual Reality Modeling Language |
| VxD |
Virtual Extended Driver (Microsoft) |
| WAIS |
Wide Area Information Server |
| WAN |
Wide Area Network |
| WAP |
Wireless Application Protocol |
| WBMP |
Wireless Bitmap Image |
| WFW |
Windows For Workgroups (Microsoft) |
| WIFI |
Wireless fidelity |
| WIMAX |
Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access |
| WINS |
Windows Internet Name Service |
| WLAN |
Wireless Local Area Network |
| WMA |
Windows Media Audio |
| WML |
Wireless Markup Language |
| WMV |
Windows Media Video |
| WORM |
Write Once Read Many |
| WORM |
Write Once, Read Many |
| WP |
WordPerfect + Word Processing + Write Protected |
| WPM |
Words Per Minute |
| WRAM |
Windows RAM (graphics card) |
| WS |
WordStar + Workstation |
| WWW |
World Wide Web |
| WYSIWYG |
What You See Is What You Get |
| XGA |
Extended Graphics Array (IBM)( generically, 1024×768 color standard |
| XHTML |
Extensible Hyper Text Markup Language |
| XMF |
Extensible Music File |
| XML |
Extensible Markup Language |
| XMS |
Extended Memory Specification |
| XSL |
Extensible Style Language |
| XT |
Extended Technology |
| Yahoo |
Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle |
| YB |
YOTTA BYTE |
| YiB |
YOBI BYTE |
| ZB |
ZETTA BYTE |
| ZiB |
Zebi Byte |
| ZIF |
Zero-Insertion Force (socket) |
