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| Abbreviation | Full Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| A/D | Analog-to-Digital | |
| ABC | Atanasoff Berry Computer | |
| ACM | Association for Computing Machinery | |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence | |
| ALGOL | Algorithic Language | |
| ALU | Arithmetic Logic Unit | |
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | |
| APRANET | Advanced Research Project Agency Network | |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange | |
| BASIC | Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code | |
| BCD | Binary Coded Decimal | |
| BIOS | Basic Input Output System | It controls the computer, telling it what operations to perform. These instructions are on a chip that connects to the motherboard. |
| BIPS | Billions of Instructions Per Second | |
| BPI | Bytes Per Inch | |
| CAD | Computer Aided Design | |
| CADD | Computer Aided Design and Drafting | It controls the computer, telling it what operations to perform. These instructions are on a chip that connects to the motherboard. |
| CAE | Computer Aided Engineering | |
| CAN | Campus Area Network | |
| CASE | Computer Aided Software Engineering | |
| CD | Compact Disk | |
| CDC | Control Data Corporation | |
| CD-R | CD-Recordable | |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disk Read Only Memory | |
| CD-RW | CD Read/Write | |
| CL | Command Language | |
| CLI | Command Line Interface | |
| COBOL | Common Business Oriented | |
| CODASYL | Conference On Data Systems | |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit | It controls the computer, telling it what operations to perform. These instructions are on a chip that connects to the motherboard. |
| CRT | Cathode Ray Tube | |
| D/A | Digital-to-Analog | |
| DAT | Digital Audio Tape | |
| DBMS | Data Base Management System | |
| DBS | Demand Based Switching | |
| DDL | Data Definition Language | |
| DDS | Digital Data Storage | |
| DEC | Digital Equipment Corporation | |
| DMA | Direct Memory Access | |
| DNA | Digital Network Architecture | |
| DPI | Dots Per Inch | |
| DRAM | Dynamic RAM | |
| DSN | Distributed Systems Network | |
| DTS | Digital Theater System | |
| DVD | Digital Video/Versatile Disk | |
| EBCDIC | Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code | |
| EDSAC | Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator | |
| EDVAC | Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Calculator | |
| EFM | Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation | |
| ENIAC | Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator | |
| EPG | Electronic Programming Guide | |
| EPIC | Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing | |
| EPROM | Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory | |
| FAT | File Allocation Table | |
| FDM | Frequency Division Multiplexing | |
| FEP | Front End Processor | |
| FLOPS | Floating Point Operations Per Second | |
| FM | Frequency Modulation | |
| FMS | File Management System | |
| FORTRAN | FORmula TRANslation | |
| FSK | Frequency Shift Keying | |
| FTP | File Tranfer Protocol | |
| GB | Giga Bytes | |
| GFLOPS | Giga FLOPS | |
| GHz | Giga Hertz | |
| GNU | Gnu Not Unix | |
| GPRS | General Packet Radio Service | |
| GSM | Global System for Mobile communication | |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface | |
| HP | Hewlett Packard | |
| HSS | Hierarchical Storage System | |
| HTML | HyperText Markup Language | |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol | |
| IBM | International Business Machine | |
| IC | Integrated Circuit | |
| IDN | Integrated Digital Networks | |
| IP | Internet Protocol | |
| IrDA | Infrared Data Association | |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network | |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider | |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group | |
| JRE | Java Runtime Engine | |
| JSP | Java Server Pages | |
| KB | Kilo Bytes | |
| KHz | Kilo Hertz | |
| LAN | Local Area Network | |
| LCD | Liquid Crystal Display | |
| LED | Light Emitting Diode | |
| LPM | Line Per Minute | |
| LSI | Large Scael Integration | |
| MAN | Metropolitan Area Network | |
| MAC | Macintosh | Type of personal computer made by the Apple Computer company. |
| MAR | Memory Address Register | |
| MB | Mega Bytes | |
| MBR | Memory Buffer Register | |
| MHz | Mega Hertz | |
| MIDI | Musical Instrument Digital Interface | |
| MIPS | Millions of Instructions Per Second | |
| MNP | Microcom Network Protocol | |
| MPEG | Moving Pictures Experts Group | |
| MS-DOS | MicroSoft Disk Operating System | |
| MVT | Multiprogramming with Variable Tasks | |
| NIC | Network Interface Card | |
| NICNET | National Informatics Center NETwork | |
| NOS | Network Operating System | |
| OCR | Optical Character Recognition | |
| OMR | Optical Mark Reader | |
| OS | Operating System | It controls the computer, telling it what operations to perform. These instructions are on a chip that connects to the motherboard. |
| OSI | Open System Interconnection | |
| OSS | Open Source Software | |
| PAN | Personal Area Network | |
| PC | Personal Computer | It controls the computer, telling it what operations to perform. These instructions are on a chip that connects to the motherboard. |
| Portable Document Format | ||
| PDL | Program Design Language | |
| PDP | Program Data Processor | |
| PIP | Peripheral Interchange Program | |
| PPP | Point-to-Point Protocol | |
| PROM | Programmable Read-Only Memory | |
| QoS | Quality of Service | |
| RAM | Random Access Memory | |
| ROM | Read Only Memory | |
| SDLC | Software Development Life Cycle | |
| SEQUEL | Structured English QUEry Language | |
| SGML | Syntax for Generalized Markup Language | |
| SIMM | Single In-line Memory Module | |
| SNA | Systems Network Architecture | |
| SNOBOL | StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language | |
| SQL | Structured Query Language | |
| SRAM | Static RAM | |
| SSI | Small Scale Integration | |
| TB | Tera Bytes | |
| TCP | Transport Control Protocol | |
| TDM | Time Division Multiplexing | |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol | |
| ULSI | Ultra Large Scale Integration | |
| UPC | Universal Product Code | |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator | |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus | |
| UTF | Unicode Transformation Format | |
| VAN | Value Added Network | |
| VCR | Video Cassette Recorder | |
| VDT | Video Display Terminal | |
| VGA | Video Graphics Array | |
| VOD | Video-On-Demand | |
| VoIP | Voice over Internet Protocol | |
| VR | Virtual Reality | It simulates a three-dimensional scene on the computer and has the capability of interaction. This is widely used in gaming. |
| VRML | Virtual Reality Mark-up Language | It allows the display of 3D images. |
| VSAT | Very Small Aperture Terminal | |
| WAN | Wide Area Network | |
| WAP | Wireless Application Protocol | |
| WiMAX | Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access | |
| WLAN | Wireless Local Area Network | |
| WLL | Wireless Local Loop | |
| WORM | Write Once Read Many | |
| WWW | World Wide Web | |
| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get | Basically means that the printer will print what you see on your monitor. |
| XHTML | eXtensible HyperText Markup Language | |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language | |
| X.400 | Electronic Mail Protocol | |
| X.500 | Directory Server Protocol |
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