Computer, Network, Technology Related Abbreviations
AAC - Advanced Audio Coding
ABR - Average Bit Rate
ACE - Access Control Entity
A/D - Analog to Digital
ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AFA - All Flash Array
AGP - Advanced Graphics Port
AI - Artificial Intelligence
ALGOL - Algorithmic Language
ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit
AMD - Advanced Micro Devices
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
ASR - Automatic Send and Receive
AT - Advanced Technology
ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment
ATAPI - Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
ATDT - Attention Dial Tone
ATM - Automated Teller Machine/Asynchronous Transfer Mode
AUI - Attachment Unit Interface
AVI - Audio Video Interleave
BASIC - Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BCC - Blank Carbon Copy
BCD - Binary Coded Decimal
BCR - Bar Code Reader
BGP - Border Gateway Protocol
BIOS - Basic Input Output System
BIS - Business Information System
BIT - Binary Digit
BIU - Bus Interface Unit
BMP - Bitmap Picture
BPS - Byte/Bits Per Second
B2B - Business to Business
B2C - Business to Consumer
CAD - Computer-Aided Design
CADD - Computer-Aided Design in Drafting
CAI - Computer-Aided Instruction
CAL - Computer Aided Learning
CAM - Computer-Aided Manufacturing
CAR - Control Address Register
CC - Carbon Copy
CD - Compact Disk
CDROM - Compact Disk-Read Only Memory
CDRW - Compact Disk Rewritable
CDMA - Code Division Multiple Access
CGI - Common Gateway Interface
CIDR - Classless Inter Domain Routing
CISC - Complex Instructions Set Computers
CLR - Common Language Runtime
CMD - Command
CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CMS - Content Management System
CMYK - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key
COAX - Co-axial Cable
COBOL - Common Business Oriented Language
COM - Company
COMPUTER - Commonly Operated Machine Particularly Used for Trade or Technology, Education and Research
CPI - Clock/Cycle Per Instruction
CPU - Central Processing Unit
CRC - Cycle Redundancy Check
CROM - Computerized Range of Motion
CRT - Cathode Ray Tube
CSS - Cascading Style Sheet
CTRL - Control Key
CUI - Character User Interface
DARPANET - Defence Advanced Research Project Agency Network
DAT - Digital Audio Tape
DBMS - Database Management System
DDL - Data Definition Language
DDR - Double Data Rate
DDR-SDRAM - Double Data Rate-Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
DHTML - Dynamics Hyper Text Markup Language
DML - Data Manipulation Language
DNA - Distributed Internet Architecture
DNS - Domain Name System
Doc - Document
DOC - Date Optimizing Computer
DOS - Disk Operating System
DPI - Dots Per Inch
DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory
DVD - Digital Versatile Disk
DVDR - Digital Versatile Disk Recordable
DVDRW - Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable
DVI - Digital Visual Interface
DVR - Digital Video Recorder
E-Commerce - Electronic Commerce
E-Mail - Electronic Mail
EB - EXAByte
EiB - EXBIByte
EDGE - Enhanced Data Rate for GSM Evolution
EDI - Electronic Data Interchange
EDP - Electronic Data Processing
EDSAC - Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator
EDVAC - Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
EEPROM - Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EFS - Encrypted File System
ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator
EPROM - Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EROM - Erasable Read-Only Memory
FAT - File Allocation Table
FDC - Floppy Disk Controller
FDD - Floppy Disk Drive
FLOPS - Floating Point Operations Per Second
FM - Frequency Modulation
FORTRAN - Formula Translation
FPS - Frames Per Second
FS - File System
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
3GP - 3rd Generation Project
3GPP - 3rd Generation Partnership Project
GB - GigaByte
GiB - GIBIByte
GBPS - Gigabytes/Gigabits Per Second
GDI - Graphical Device Into
GHZ - Gigahertz
GIF - Graphics Interchange Format
GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out
GML - Geography Markup Language
GOV - Government
GPRS - General Packet Radio Service
GSM - Global System For Mobile Communication
GUI - Graphical User Interface
HD - Hard Disk
HDD - Hard Disk Drive
HDMI - High Definition Multimedia Interface
HP - Hewlett Packard/Horsepower
HPC - Handheld Personal Computer
HSDPA - High Speed Downlink Packet Access
HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
IBM - International Business Machines
IC - Integrated Circuit
ICT - Information Communication Technology
IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol
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
ISO - International Organization for Standardization
ISP - Internet Service Provider
IT - Information Technology
J2EE - Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition
JAD - Job Application Descriptor/Development
JAR - Java Archive
JPEG - Joint Photographic Expert Group
JS - JavaScript
JSP - Java Server Page
Kbps - Kilobits/Kilobytes Per Second
KB - Kilobyte
KBD - Keyboard
LAN - Local Area Network
LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
LED - Light Emitting Diode
LLL - Low-level Language
Mp3 - MPEG Audio Layer 3
Mp4 - MPEG-4 AVC
MAN - Metropolitan Area Network
MB - Motherboard/Megabyte
MBPS - Megabits/Megabytes Per Second
MCGA - Multi Colored Graphics Adapter
MHz - Megahertz
MICR - Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIPS - Million Instruction Per Second
MODEM - Modulates and Demodulates
MPEG - Motion Picture Expert Group
MS Access - Microsoft Program/Access
MS DOS - Microsoft Disk Operating System
MU - Memory Unit
NAT - Network Address Translation
NIC - Network Interface Card
NIIT - National Institute of Information Technology
NTFS - New Technology File System
NTP - Network Time Protocol
OpenGL - Open Graphics Library
OMR - Optical Mark Reader/Recognition
OOP - Object-Oriented Programming
ORG - Organization
OS - Operating System
OSI - Open System Interconnection
PAN - Personal Area Network
PB - Petabyte
PiB - Pebibyte
PC - Personal Computer
PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect
PDA - Personal Digital
PDF - Portable Document Format
PDU - Protocol Data Unit/Power Distribution Unit
PHP - Hypertext Preprocessor
PING - Packet Internet/Internetwork Groper
PNG - Portable Network
PNP - Plug and Play
POST - Power On Self Test
PPP - Point to Point Protocol
PROLOG - Programming Logic
PROM - Programmable Read-Only Memory
PS/2 - Personal System 2
PSU - Power Supply Unit
RAID - Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RAM - Random Access Memory
RDBMS - Relational Database Management System
RDMA - Remote Direct Memory Access
RIP - Routing Information to Protocol
ROM - Read Only Memory
RPM - Revolutions Per Minute
SAM - Software Asset Management/Sequential Access Method
SATA - Serial Advanced Technology Attachments
SDRAM - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SEO - Search Engine Optimization
SIM - Subscriber Identity Module
SIMM - Single In-line Memory Module
SIU - Serial Interface Unit
SMPS - Switch Mode Power Supply
SMS - Short Message Service
SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNAP - Subnetwork Access Protocol
SNOBOL - String Oriented Symbolic Language
SQL - Structured Query
SRAM - Static Random Access Memory
SSD - Solid State Device
SSDD - Single Sided Double Density
SSHD - Single Sided High Density
SVGA - Super Video Graphics Array
SW - Software
TAPI - Telephony Application Programming Interface
TB - Terabyte
TiB - Tebibyte
TBPS - Terabytes Per Second
TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TXT - Text
UHF - Ultra High Frequency
UI - User Interface
UMTS - Universal Mobile Telecommunication System
UNIVAC - Universal Automatic Computer
UPS - Uninterruptible Power Supply
URL - Uniform Resource Locator
USB - Universal Serial Bus
VAN - Value Added Network
VCD - Video Compact Disk
VDU - Visual Display Unit
VGA - Video Graphics Array
VHF - Very High Frequency
VIRUS - Vital Information Resource Under Seized
VLSI - Vey Large Scale Integration
VOIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
VPN - Virtual Private Network
VR - Virtual Reality
VRAM - Video Random Access Memory
VRML - Virtual Reality Mark-up Language
WAN - Wide Area Network
WAP - Wireless Application Protocol
WBMP - Wireless Bitmap Image
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
WWW - World Wide Web
XHTML - Extensible Hypertext 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 - Yottabyte
YiB - Yobibyte
ZB - Zettabyte
ZiB - Zebibyte
