Most Common Computer Acronyms

Most Common Computer  Acronyms..

ACL: Access Control List

ADC: Analog-to-Digital Converter

ADSL: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

AGP: Accelerated or advanced Graphics Port

ANSI American National Standards Institute

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ATM automatic teller machine

BASIC Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BIOS Basic Input/Output System

CAD Computer-Aided Design

CD Compact Disc

CD-R Compact Disc Recordable

CD-ROM Compact Disc Read-Only Memory

CD-RW Compact Disc Re-Writable

CISC Complex Instruction Set Computing

CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor Magenta Yellow Performance System

CPU Central Processing Unit CRM Customer Relationship Management

CRT Cathode Ray Tube

CSS Cascading Style Sheet

DAC Digital-to-Analog Converter

DBMS Database Management System

DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DMA Direct Memory Access DNS Domain Name System DOS Disk Operating System

DPI Dots Per Inch

DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory

DSL Digital Subscriber Line

DV Digital Video

DVD Digital Versatile Disc

DVD+R Digital Versatile Disc Recordable

DVD+RW Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable

DVD-R Digital Versatile Disc Recordable

DVD-RAM Digital Versatile Disc Random Access Memory

DVD-RW Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable

DVI Digital Video Interface

FIFO First In, First Out

FiOS Fiber Optic Service

FPU Floating Point Unit FSB Front side Bus

FTP File Transfer Protocol

GIF Graphics Interchange Format

GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out

GIS Geographic Information Systems

GPS Global Positioning System

GPU Graphics Processing Unit

GUI Graphical User Interface

HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface

HDTV High Definition Television

HDV High-Definition Video

HTML Hyper-Text Markup Language

HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

HTTPS Hyper Text Transport Protocol Secure

I/O Input/Output

ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol

IDE Integrated Device Electronics or Integrated Development Environment Engineers

IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol Inter

NIC  Network interface card

IP Internet Protocol

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network

ISO International Organization for Standardization

ISP Internet Service Provider

IT Information Technology

JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group

Kbps Kilobits Per Second

LAN Local Area Network

LCD Liquid Crystal Display

LIFO Last In, First Out

MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group

NAT Network Address Translation

NetBIOS Network Basic Input/Output System

NIC Network Interface Card

OCR Optical Character Recognition

PDA Personal Digital Assistant

PDF Portable Document Format

PHP Hypertext Preprocessor

PNG Portable Network Graphic

POP3 Post Office Protocol PPC

PPP Point to Point Protocol

PRAM Parameter Random Access Memory Disks

RAM Random Access Memory

ROM Read-Only Memory

SAN Storage Area Network

SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

SCSI Small Computer System Interface

SD Secure Digital

SMS Short Message Service

SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SQL Structured Query Language

SRAM Static Random Access Memory

TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply

URI Uniform Resource Identifier

URL Uniform Resource Locator

USB Universal Serial Bus

VGA Video Graphics Array

VPN Virtual Private Network

WAN Wide Area Network

WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy

Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity

WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access

WWW World Wide Web

XHTML Extensible Hypertext Markup Language

XML Extensible Markup Language

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