Useful & Informative Computer Acronyms - Abbreviations

--- 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 (ft�/min)
 
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

 

--- E ---

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
 

WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get

--- X ---

XGA - Extended Graphics Array
 

XFX - XFX Graphics, a Division of Pine
 

XMS - Extended Memory Specification
 

XT - Extended Technology