COMPUTER ACRONYMS AND THEIR FULL MEANING

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
ATI - ATI 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
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

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 Are 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

T

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
WWW- World Wide Web
WYSIWYG - What You See Is WhatYou Get

X

XGA - Extended Graphics Array
XFX - XFX Graphics, a Division of Pine
XMS - Extended Memory Specification
XT - Extended Technology

Source: Wikipedia

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