1. ALU: Arithmetic logic unit

2. ACPI: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface

3. AC: Alternating Current

4. AM: Amplitude Modulated

5. AMD: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

6. AMD: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

7. AMI: American Megatrends Inc.

8. ANSI: American National Standards Institute

9. API: Application Program Interface

10. APIC: Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller

11. APM: Advanced Power Management

12. ASCII: American Standard Code for Information

Interchange

13. ASIC: Application Specific Integrated Circuit

14. ASPI: Advanced SCSI Programming Interface

15. AT: Advanced Technology

16. ATA: AT Bus Attachment

17. ATAPI: ATA Packet Interface

18. ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode

19. BBS: Bulletin Board System

20. BCC: Block Check Character

21. BSC: Binary Synchronous Communications

22. BSD: Berkeley Standard Distribution

23. BTU: British Thermal Units

24. BCD: Binary Coded Decimal

25. BIOS: Basic Input / Output System

26. BNC: Bayonet Nut Connector

27. BPS: Bytes Per Second

28. bps: bits Per Second

29. CAM: Computer Aided Manufacturing

30. CAD: Computer Aided Design

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31. CAS: Column Address Strobe

32. CPU : Central Processing Unit

33. CPI: Clocks Per Instruction

34. CR: Carriage Return

35. CUI : Composite User Interface

36. CRT : Cathode Ray Tube

37. CRC: Cyclical Redundancy Check

38. CD: Carrier Detect & Compact Disc

39. CD-R : Compact Disc-Recordable

40. CD-RW : Compact Disc-ReWritable

41. CD-ROM : Compact disc read-only memory

42. CGA: Color Graphics Adapter

43. CHS: Cylinder Head Sector

44. COMPUTER: Common Oriented Machine Particularly

Used for Trade Education and Research

45. CMOS: Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor

46. CPLD: Complex Programmable Logic Device

47. CSR: Command Status Register

48. CRC: Cyclic Redundancy Check

49. CTS: Clear To Send

50. DVI : Digital Visual Interface

51. DVD : Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc

52. DAT: Digital Audio Tape

53. DC: Direct Current

54. DCD: Data Carrier Detect

55. DCE: Data Circuit-terminating Equipment

56. DD: Double Density

57. DEC: Digital Equipment Corporation

58. DIMM: Dual Inline Memory Module

59. DIP: Dual-In-line Package

60. DMA: Direct Memory Access

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61. DMI: Desktop Management Interface

62. DOS: Disk Operating System

63. DPE: Data Parity Error

64. DRAM: Dynamic Random Access Memory

65. DS: Double Sided

66. DSP: Digital Signal Processor

67. DSR: Data Set Ready

68. DTA: Disk Transfer Area

69. DTC: Data Terminal Controller

70. DTE: Data Terminating Equipment

71. DTR: Data Terminal Ready

72. EBCDIC: Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange

Code

73. EC: Error Check

74. ECC: Error Check and Correction

75. ECP: Enhanced Communication Port

76. ECU: EISA Configuration Utility

77. EDO: Extended Data Out RAM

78. EEPROM: Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only

Memory

79. EGA: Enhanced Graphics Adapter

80. EIA: Electronic Industries Association

81. EIDE: Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics

82. EISA: Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture

83. EMI: Electro-Magnetic Interference

84. EMF: Electro-Magnetic Force

85. EMM: Expanded Memory Manager

86. EMS: Expanded Memory Specification

87. EOF: End Of File

88. EOL: End Of Line

89. EPP: Enhanced Parallel Port

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90. EPROM: Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

91. ESCD: Extended System Configuration Data

92. ESD: Electro-Static Discharge

93. ESDI: Enhanced Small Devices Interface

94. FTP - File Transfer Protocol

95. FAT: File Allocation Table

96. FCC: Federal Communications Commission

97. FDD: Fixed/Floppy Disk Drive

98. FDDI: Fiber Distributed Data Interface

99. FDM: Frequency Division Multiplexing

100. FDX: Full-Duplex Transmission

101. FE: Front End

102. FEP: Front End Processor

103. FF: Form Feed

104. FIFO: First-In First-Out

105. FILO: First-In Last-Out

106. FM: Frequency Modulation

107. FPGA: Field Programmable Gate Array

108. FPM: Fast Page Mode RAM

109. FPU: Floating Point Unit

110. FRC: Functional Redundancy Checking

111. FRU: Field-Replaceable Unit

112. FSF: Free Software Foundation

113. FSK: Frequency Shifty Keying

114. GUI : Graphical user interface

115. GAS: Gallium Arsenide

116. GFLOPS: Billions of Floating Point Operations Per

Second

117. HTML : Hyper Text Markup Language

118. HD: High Density

119. HDD: Hard Disk Drive

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120. HDX: Half-Duplex Transmission

121. HFS: Hierarchical File System

122. HPFS: High Performance File System

123. IBM : International Business Machines

124. I/O: Input/Output

125. IC: Integrated Circuit

126. IDE: Integrated Device Electronics

127. IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

128. IMP: Interface Message Processor

129. IP: Internet Protocol

130. IPC: Inter Process Communication

131. IPX: Inter network Packet eXchange

132. IRQ: Interrupt ReQuest

133. ISA: Industry Standard Architecture

134. ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network

135. ISO: International Standards Organization

136. ISR: Interrupt Service Routine

137. IVT: Interrupt Vector Table

138. JFS: Journalized File System

139. KNI: Katmai New Instructions

140. KVA: KiloVolt-Amps

141. LBA: Linear Block Array / Addressing

142. LCD : Liquid crystal display

143. LAN : Local area network

144. LOGO : Language of Graphic-Oriented

145. LED: Light Emitting Diode

146. LF: Line Feed

147. LIF : Low Insertion Force

148. LIM: Lotus/Intel/Microsoft’s Expanded Memory

Manager

149. LRU: Least-Recently Used

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150. LSB: Least Significant Byte/bit

151. LSI: Large Scale Integration

152. LUN: Logical Unit Number

153. LASER : Light Amplification by Stimulated

Emission of Radiation

154. MAN : Metropolitan area network

155. MESI: Modified/Exclusive/Shared/Invalid

156. MIPS : Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline

Stages

157. MSo : Micro Soft Office, Multi system operator

158. MB/Mb: Mega Bytes/bits

159. MBR: Master Boot Record

160. MCA: Micro Channel Architecture

161. MCGA: Multi-Color Graphics Array

162. MCM: Multi-Chip Module

163. MDRAM: Multi-bank RAM

164. MFLOPS: Millions of FLOating Point Operations per

Second

165. MFM: Modified Frequency Modulated

166. MHz: MegaHertz

167. MICR: Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

168. MIDI: Musical Instrument Data Interface

169. MIMD: Multiple-Instruction Multiple-Data

170. MISD: Multiple-Instruction Single Data

171. MMX: Multi-Media Extensions

172. MNP: Microcom Network Protocol

173. MODEM: MOdulator / DEModulator

174. MOPS: Millions of Operations Per Second

175. MOS: Metal-Oxide Semiconductor

176. MP: Multi-Processor

177. MPP: Massively Parallel Processor

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178. MPS: Multi-Processor System

179. MSB: Most Significant Byte/bit

180. MSDOS: Microsoft’s Disk Operating System

181. SI: Medium Scale Integration

182. MTBF: Mean Time Between Failure

183. N/C: No-Connect

184. NBS: National Bureau of Standards

185. NEMA: National Electrical Manufacturers

Association

186. NFS: Network File System

187. NFU: Not-Frequently Used

188. NIC: Network Interface Card

189. NMI: Non-Maskable Interrupt

190. NMOS: Negatively doped Metal-Oxide

Semiconductor

191. NOP: No OPeration NRU Not-Recently Used

192. NOS: Network Operating System

193. NSF: National Science Foundation

194. NTFS: New Technology File System

195. NVRAM: NonVolatile Random Access Memory

196. OCR: Optical Character Recognition

197. ODI: Open Data link Interface

198. OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer

199. OS: Operating System

200. OSF: Open Software Foundation

201. OSI: Open Systems Interconnect

202. PAL: Programmable Array Logic

203. PB: Push Button

204. PBX: Private Branch eXtender

205. PC: Personal Computer, Program Counter

206. PCB: Printed Circuit Board

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207. PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect

208. PCM: Pulse Code Modulation

209. PCMCIA: Personal Computer Memory Card

International Association

210. PE: Processor Element

211. PFF: Page Fault Frequency

212. PGA: Professional Graphics Array

213. PGA: Pin Grid Array

214. PIC: Programmable Interrupt Controller

215. PIO: Programmed Input / Output

216. PIROM: Processor Information ROM

217. PLA: Programmable Logic Array

218. PLCC: Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier

219. PLD: Programmable Logic Devices

220. PLL: Phase Locked Loop

221. PM: Preventive Maintenance

222. PMOS: Positively doped Metal-Oxide Semiconductor

223. PnP: Plug-and-Play

224. POST: Power On Self Test

225. PPP: Point-to-Point Protocol

226. PQFP: Plastic Quad Flat Pack

227. PROM: Programmable Read Only Memory

228. PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Network

229. PSP: Program Segment Prefix

230. PTE: Page Table Entry

231. QAM: Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

232. QFP: Quad Flat Pack

233. QIC: Quarter Inch Cartridge

234. RAM - Random-access memory

235. RAID: Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks

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236. RAMDAC: Random Access Memory Digital to

Analogue Converter

237. RAS: Row Address Strobe

238. RCA: Radio Corporation of America

239. RCC: Routing Control Center

240. RDRAM: Rambus DRAM

241. RFC: Request For Comments

242. RFI: Radio Frequency Interference

243. RI: Ring Indicator

244. RISC: Reduced Instruction-Set Computer

245. RLL: Run Length Limited

246. RMS: Root Mean Squared

247. RMW: Read Modify Write

248. ROM: Read Only Memory

249. RPC: Remote Procedure Call

250. RPM: Rotations Per Minute

251. RTC: Real Time Clock

252. RTS: Request To Send

253. SAM: Sequential Access Memory

254. SASI: Shugart Associates Standard Interface

255. SCSI: Small Computer Systems Interface

256. SD: Single Density

257. SDLC: Synchronous Data Link Control

258. SDRAM: Synchronous Dynamic RAM

259. SDRAM DDR: Double Data Rate SDRAM

260. SDRAM BDDR: Bi-Directional Strobed DDR

SDRAM

261. SE: Systems Engineer

262. SEC: Single Edge Contact

263. SFF: Small Form Factor

264. SGRAM: Synchronous Graphics RAM

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265. SMS : Short Message Service

266. SIMD: Single-Instruction Multiple-Data

267. SIMM: Single Inline Memory Module

268. SIPP: Single Inline Pinned Package

269. SISD: Single-Instruction Single-Data

270. SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol

271. SMD: Surface Mount Device

272. SMT: Surface Mount Technology

273. SNA: System Network Architecture

274. SNR: Signal to Noise Ratio

275. SOL: Small Out Line

276. SOIC: Small Outline Integrated Circuit

277. SPOOL: Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On Line

278. SPT: Sectors Per Track

279. SPU: Single Processor Unit

280. SRAM: Static Random Access Memory

281. SS: Single Sided

282. STDM: Synchronous Time Division Multiplexing

283. STN: Super Twisted Nematic

284. STU: Streaming Tape Unit

285. SVGA: Super Video Graphics Array

286. TCM: Trellis Code Modulation

287. TCP : Transmission Control Protocol

288. TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol / Internet

Protocol

289. TDM: Time Division Multiplexing

290. TI: Texas Instruments

291. TIA: Telecomm Industry Association

292. TLB: Translation-Look aside Buffer

293. TPI: Tracks Per Inch

294. TRANSISTOR: TRANSformer resISTOR

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295. TSR: Terminate and Stay Resident

296. TTL: Transistor-Transistor Logic

297. UAE: Unrecoverable Application Error

298. UART: Universal Asynchronous

Receiver/Transmitter

299. USART: Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous

Receiver/Transmitter

300. UDP: User Datagram Protocol

301. UMB: Upper Memory Block

302. USB: Universal Serial Bus

303. UNIX: A trademark used for a computer disk

operating system

304. UPS - Uninterruptible power supply

305. USL: UNIX System Labs

306. UUCP: UNIX to UNIX Copy Program

307. VIRUS : Vital Information Resources Under Seize

308. VDU : Visual Display Unit

309. VBE: Video BIOS Extensions

310. VCR: Video Cassette RecorderVESA: Video

Enhanced Standards Association

311. VGA: Video Graphics Array

312. VLB: VESA Local Bus

313. VLIW: Very Long Instruction Word

314. VLSI: Very Large Scale Integration

315. VM: Virtual Memory

316. VME: Versa Module Euro-card

317. VRAM: Video Random Access Memory

318. VRT: Voltage Reduction Technology

319. VTR: Video Tape Recorder

320. WAN : Wide area network

321. WATS: Wide Area Telephone Service

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322. WD: Western Digital

323. WORM: Write Once - Read-Many

324. WRAM: Window Random Access Memory

325. WS: Wait State

326. WWW : World Wide Web

327. XGA: eXtended Graphics Array

328. XMS: Extended Memory Specification

329. XOR: Exclusive-OR

330. XNOR: Exclusive-NOR

331. XT: eXtended Technology

332. ZIF: Zero Insertion Force

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