November 6, 2009

Computer Accronym

A simple dictionary about short-senteces in computer world.

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |

A
ADSL  
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

AGP  
Accelerated Graphics Port

ALI  
Acer Labs, Incorporated

ALU  
Arithmetic Logic Unit

AMD  
Advanced Micro Devices

APC  
American Power Conversion

ASCII 
American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASIC  
Application Specific Integrated Circuit

ASPI  
Advanced SCSI Programming Interface

AT
Advanced Technology

ATIATI 
Technologies Inc.

ATX
Advanced Technology Extended


B
BFG
BFG Technologies

BIOS
Basic Input Output System

BNC
Barrel Nut Connector

C
CAS
Column Address Signal

CD
Compact Disk

CDR
Compact Disk Recorder

CDRW
Compact Disk Re-Writer

CD-ROM
Compact Disk - Read Only Memory

CFM
Cubic Feet per Minute (ft/min)

CMOS
Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

CPU
Central Processing Unit

CTX 
CTX Technology Corporation (Commited to Excellence)

D
DDR 
Double Data Rate

DDR-SDRAM 
Double Data Rate - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

DFI 
DFI Inc. (Design for Innovation)

DIMM 
Dual Inline Memory Module

DRAM 
Dynamic Random Access Memory

DPI 
Dots Per Inch

DSL 
See ASDL

DVD 
Digital Versatile Disc

DVD-RAM 
Digital Versatile Disk - Random Access Memory

E
ECC 
Error Correction Code

ECS 
Elitegroup Computer Systems

EDO 
Extended Data Out

EEPROM 
Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

EPROM
Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

EVGA
EVGA Corporation

F
FC-PGA 
Flip Chip Pin Grid Array

FDC 
Floppy Disk Controller

FDD 
Floppy Disk Drive

FPS 
Frame Per Second

FPU 
Floating Point Unit

FSAA 
Full Screen Anti-Aliasing

FS 
For Sale

FSB 
Front Side Bus

G
GB 
Gigabytes

GBps 
Gigabytes per second or Gigabits per second

GDI  
Graphical Device Interface

GHz 
GigaHertz

H
HDD 
Hard Disk Drive

HIS 
Hightech Information System Limited

HP 
Hewlett-Packard Development Company

HSF
Heatsink-Fan

I
IBM 
International Business Machines Corporation

IC 
Integrated Circuit

IDE 
Integrated Drive Electronics

IFS
Item for Sale

IRQ 
Interrupt Request

ISA 
Industry Standard Architecture

ISO 
International Standards Organization

J
JBL 
JBL (Jame B. Lansing) Speakers

JVC 
JVC Company of America

K
Kbps 
Kilobits Per Second

KBps 
KiloBytes per second

L
LG 
LG Electronics

LAN 
Local Area Network

LCD 
Liquid Crystal Display

LDT 
Lightning Data Transport

LED 
Light Emitting Diode

M
MAC 
Media Access Control

MB 
MotherBoard or Megabyte

MBps 
Megabytes Per Second

Mbps 
Megabits Per Second or Megabits Per Second

MHz 
MegaHertz

MIPS 
Million Instructions Per Second

MMX 
Multi-Media Extensions

MSI 
Micro Star International

N
NAS 
Network Attached Storage

NAT 
Network Address Translation

NEC 
NEC Corporation

NIC 
Network Interface Card

O
OC 
Overclock (Over Clock)

OCZ 
OCZ Technology

OEM 
Original Equipment Manufacturer

P
PC 
Personal Computer

PCB 
Printed Circuit Board

PCI 
Peripheral Component Interconnect

PDA 
Personal Digital Assistant

PCMCIA 
Peripheral Component Microchannel Interconnect Architecture

PGA 
Professional Graphics Array

PLD 
Programmable Logic Device

PM 
Private Message / Private Messaging

PnP 
Plug 'n Play

PNY 
PNY Technology

POST 
Power On Self Test

PPPoA 
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM

PPPoE 
Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet

PQI 
PQI Corporation

PSU 
Power Supply Unit

R
RAID 
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks

RAM 
Random Access Memory

RAMDAC 
Random Access Memory Digital Analog Convertor

RDRAM 
Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory

ROM 
Read Only Memory

RPM 
Revolutions Per Minute

S
SASID 
Self-scanned Amorphous Silicon Integrated Display

SCA 
SCSI Configured Automatically

SCSI 
Small Computer System Interface

SDRAM 
Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

SECC
Single Edge Contact Connector

SODIMM 
Small Outline Dual Inline Memory Module

SPARC 
Scalable Processor ArChitecture

SOHO 
Small Office Home Office

SRAM 
Static Random Access Memory

SSE 
Streaming SIMD Extensions

SVGA 
Super Video Graphics Array

S/PDIF 
Sony/Philips Digital Interface


TB
Terabytes

TBps 
Terabytes per second

Tbps 
Terabits per second

TDK 
TDK Electronics

TEC 
Thermoelectric Cooler

TPC 
TipidPC

TWAIN 
Technology Without An Important Name

U
UART
Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter

USB 
Universal Serial Bus

UTP 
Unshieled Twisted Pair

V
VCD 
Video CD

VPN 
Virtual Private Network

W

WAN 
Wide Area Network

WTB 
Want to Buy

WYSIWYG 
What You See Is What You Get

X

XGA
Extended Graphics Array

XFX
XFX Graphics, a Division of Pine

XMS
Extended Memory Specification

XT 
Extended Technology

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