COMPUTER ACRONYMS

 This are some of the terms in form of acronyms that you may encounter in your professionals or perhaps in interviews. I thought of blogging them here so that you may take note anytime you want.

       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
• 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
• 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

--- E ---

--- F ---

• FTP-File Tranfer Protocal
• FIFO -First In First Out

--- G ---

• GB - Gigabytes
• GBps - Gigabytes per second or Gigabits per second
• GDI - Graphical Device Interface
• GHz - GigaHertz
• HDD - Hard Disk Drive
• HIS - Hightech Information System Limited
• HP - Hewlett-Packard Development Company
• HSF - Heatsink-Fan

--- H ---

--- 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
• Kbps - Kilobits Per Second
• KBps - KiloBytes per second
• LG - LG Electronics
• LAN - Local Are Network
• LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
• LDT - Lightning Data Transport
• LED - Light Emitting Diode

- K ---

--- L ---
--- 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
• 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

• --- O ---
• OC - Overclock (Over Clock)
• OCZ - OCZ Technology
• OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
• --- P ---
• PC - Personal Computer
• 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

--- R ---
--- 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

I shall add some as i study more, keep locked to my blog.

 
www.kenqip.blogspot.com