Computer Abbreviations

A

• Al – Artificial intelligence
• ALGOL – Algorithmic Language
• ALU – Arithmetic Logic Unit
• AMD – Advanced Micro Devices
• ANSI- American National Standards Institute
• APCI- Application Layer Protocol Control Information
• ARP – Address Resolution Protocol
• ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange
• ASR - Automatic Send And Receive
• ASP- Active Server pages/ Application Service Provider
• AVC –Advance Video Coding

B

• BAL -Basic Assembly Language
• BINAC  – Binary Automatic Computer
• BCC – Blind Carbon Copy
• Bin – Binary
• BASIC – Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
• BIOS – Basic Input Output System
• Bit – Binary Digit

C

• CC – Carbon Copy
• CAD – Computer Aided Design
• COBOL – Common Business Oriented Language
• COMPUTER- Commonly Operated Machine Particularly Used for Trade/Technology, Education, and Research.
• CD – Compact Disc
• CPU- Central Processing Unit
• CRT – Cathode Ray Tube 
• CDR – Compact Disc Recordable
• CDROM – Compact Disc Read Only Memory 
• CDRW – Compact Disc Rewritable
• CDR/W – Compact Disk Read/Write

D

• DBA – Data Base Administrator
• DBMS – Data Base Management System 
• DNS – Domain Name System
• DPI – Dots Per Inch
• DRAM – Dynamic Random Access Memory
• DVD – Digital Video Disc/Digital Versatile Disc
• DVDR – DVD Recordable
• DVDROM – DVD Read Only Memory
• DVDRW – DVD Rewritable
• DVR – Digital Video Recorder
• DOS – Disk Operating System

E

• EBCDIC – Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
• e-Commerce – Electronic Commerce
• EDP – Electronic Data Processing
• EEPROM – Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
• ELM/e-Mail – Electronic Mail
• ENIAC – Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer 
• EOF – End Of File 
• EPROM – Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory 
• EXE – Executable 

F

• FAX – Far Away Xerox/ facsimile
• FDC – Floppy Disk Controller 
• FDD – Floppy Disk Drive 
• FORTRAN – Formula Translation 
• FS – File System 
• FTP – File Transfer Protocol

G

• Gb – Gigabit 
• GB – Gigabyte 
• GIF – Graphics Interchange Format 
• GSM –  Global System for Mobile Communication

H

• HDD – Hard Disk Drive 
• HP – Hewlett Packard
• HTML – Hyper Text Markup Language 
• HTTP – Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

I

• IBM – International Business Machine 
• IM – Instant Message
• IMAP – Internet Message Access Protocol 
• ISP – Internet Service Provider

J

• JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group

K

• Kb – Kilobit 
• KB – Kilobyte 
• KHz – Kilohertz 
• Kbps – Kilobit Per Second

L

• LCD – Liquid Crystal Display
• LED – Light Emitting Diode
• LPI – Lines Per Inch
• LIS – Large Scale Integration

M

• Mb – Megabit
• MB – Megabyte
• MPEG – Moving Picture Experts Group
• MMS – Multimedia Message Service
• MICR – Magnetic Ink Character reader
• MIPS – Million Instructions Per Second

N

• NIC – Network Interface Card
• NOS – Network Operating System

O

• OMR – Optical Mark Recognition/ Reading
• OOP – Object Oriented Programming
• OSS – Open Source Software

P

• PAN – Personal Area Network
• PC – Personal Computer
• PDA – Personal Digital Assistant
• PDF – Portable Document Format
• POS – Point Of Sale
• PNG – Portable Network Graphics
• PPM – Pages Per Minute
• PPP – Point-to-Point Protocol
• PROM – Programmable Read Only Memory
• PSTN – Public Switched Telephone Network
• POST – Power On Self Test
• PING – Packet Internet Gopher

R

• RAM – Random Access Memory
• RDBMS – Relational Data Base Management System
• RIP – Routing Information Protocol
• RTF – Rich Text Format

S

• SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
• SQL – Structured Query Language
• SRAM – Static Random Access Memory
• SNMP – Simple Network Management Protocol
• SIM – Subscriber Identification Module

T

• TCP – Transmission Control Protocol
• TB – Tera Bytes

U

• UPS – Uninterrupted Power Supply
• URI – Uniform Resource Identifier
• URL – Uniform Resource Locator
• USB –  Universal Serial Bus 
• ULSI – Ultra Large Scale Integration
• UNIVAC – Universal Automatic Computer

V

• VAR – Variable
• VGA – Video Graphics Array
• VSNL – Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited
• VDU – Visual Display Unit

W

• Wi-Fi – Wireless Fidelity
• WLAN – Wireless Local Area Network
• WPA – Wi-Fi Protected Access
• WWW – World Wide Web
• WORM – Write Once Read Many

X

• XHTML – eXtensible Hyper text Markup Language
• XML –  eXtensible Markup language

Z

• ZB – Zeta Byte