BASIC COMPUTER ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviation Full-name
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
AVI Audio Video Interleave
BASIC Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BCD Binary Coded Decimal
BIOS Basic Input Output System
BIPS Billions of Instructions Per Second
BPI Bytes Per Inch
CAD Computer Aided Design
CAM Computer-Aided Manufacturing
CAE Computer Aided Engineering
CAN Campus Area Network
CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering
CD Compact Disk
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CDC Control Data Corporation
CD-R CD-Recordable
CD-ROM Compact Disk Read Only Memory
CD-RW CD Rewritable
CERT Computer Emergency Response Team
CISC Complex Instruction Set Computer
CL Command Language
CLI Command Line Interface
COBOL Common Business Oriented Language
CODASYL Conference On Data Systems
CPU Central Processing Unit
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

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DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DHTML Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language
DMA Direct Memory Access
DNA Digital Network Architecture
DP Dot Pitch
DPI Dots Per Inch
DRAM Dynamic RAM
DSL Digital Subscriber Line
DSN Distributed Systems Network
DTP Desktop Publishing
DTS Digital Theater System
DVD Digital Versatile Disk
EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EDGE Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution
EDSAC Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator
EDVAC Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Calculator
EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EFM Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation
Email Electronic Mail
ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator
EPG Electronic Programming Guide
EPIC Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing
EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
ERNET Education and Research Network
ESB Enterprise service bus
EXT EXTended file system
FAT File Allocation Table
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing
FEP Front End Processor
FIFO First In First Out
FLOPS Floating Point Operations Per Second
FM Frequency Modulation
FMS File Management System
FORTRAN FORmula TRANslation
FOSS Free and Open Source Software
FSK Frequency Shift Keying
FTP File Transfer Protocol
GB Giga Bytes
GFLOPS Giga FLOPS
GHz Giga Hertz
GIF Graphics Interchange Format

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GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out

GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program
GIS Geographic Information System
GPL General Public License
GPRS General Packet Radio Service
GSM Global System for Mobile communication
GUI Graphical User Interface
GUID Globally Unique IDentifier
HCL Hindustan Computers Limited
HDD Hard Disk Drive
HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface
HP Hewlett Packard
HSS Hierarchical Storage System
HTML Hyper Text Markup Language
HTTP Hyper Text Transport Protocol
HTTPS HTTP Secure
IBM International Business Machine
IC Integrated Circuit
ICT Information and Communication Technology
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IM Instant Messaging
IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol
INFLIBNET Information and Library Network
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Networks
IP Internet Protocol
IPv4 Internet Protocol version 4
IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6
IRC Internet Relay Chat
IrDA Infrared Data Association
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ISP Internet Service Provider
J2EE Java 2 Enterprise Edition
J2ME Java 2 Micro Edition
J2SE Java 2 Standard Edition
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
JRE Java Runtime Engine
JS Java Script
JSP Java Server Pages
KB Kilo Bytes
KHz Kilo Hertz
LAN Local Area Network
LCD Liquid Crystal Display

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LED Light Emitting Diode

LPM Line Per Minute
LSI Large Scale Integration
MAC Media Access Control
MAN Metropolitan Area Network
MAR Memory Address Register
MB Mega Bytes
MBR Memory Buffer Register
MCSE Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
MHz Mega Hertz
MICR Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIPS Millions of Instructions Per Second
MNP Microcom Network Protocol
MODEM Modulator–Demodulator
MPEG Moving Pictures Experts Group
MP3 MPEG Audio Layer 3
MS-DOS MicroSoft Disk Operating System
MSN Microsoft Network
MVT Multiprogramming with Variable Tasks
NEFT National Electronic Funds Transfer
NIC Network Interface Card
NICNET National Informatics Center NETwork
NMEICT National Mission on Education through Information and
Communication Technology
NOS Network Operating System
OCR Optical Character Recognition
OMR Optical Mark Reader
OS Operating System
OSI Open System Interconnection
OSS Open Source Software
PAN Personal Area Network
PC Personal Computer
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
PDF Portable Document Format
PDL Program Design Language
PDP Program Data Processor
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
PIP Peripheral Interchange Program
POP Post Office Protocol
PROM Programmable Read-Only Memory
QoS Quality of Service

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RAM Random Access Memory

RGB Red, Green, Blue
ROM Read Only Memory
RTGS Real Time Gross Settlement
SDLC Software Development Life Cycle
SEQUEL Structured English QUEry Language
SGML Syntax for Generalized Markup Language
SIMM Single In-line Memory Module
SITE Satellite Instructional Television Experiment
SLSI Super Large Scale Integration
SMS Short Message Service
SMPS Switch Mode Power Supply
SNA Systems Network Architecture
SNOBOL StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language
SPSS Statistical Package for Social Sciences
SQL Structured Query Language
SRAM Static RAM
SSD Solid-State Drive
SSI Small Scale Integration
SSID Service Set Identifier
SVDA Super Video Graphics Array
TB Tera Bytes
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol
TDM Time Division Multiplexing
tif Tagged Image File Format
UDP User Datagram Protocol
ULSI Ultra Large Scale Integration
UNIVAC Universal Accounting Computer
UPC Universal Product Code
UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply
URL Uniform Resource Locator
USB Universal Serial Bus
UTF Unicode Transformation Format
UTRAN Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network
VAN Value Added Network
VBA Visual Basic for Applications
VCR Video Cassette Recorder
VDT Video Display Terminal
VESA Video Electronics Standards Association
VGA Video Graphics Array
VLSI Very-Large-Scale Integration

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VOD Video-On-Demand
VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol
VPN Virtual Private Network
VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal
WAIS Wide Area Information Server
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
XHTML eXtensible HyperText Markup Language
XML eXtensible Markup Language
X.400 Electronic Mail Protocol
X.500 Directory Server Protocol