A To Z Computer abbreviations

  1. A/D        Analog-to-Digital
  2. ABC        Atanasoff Berry Computer
  3. ACM      Association for Computing Machinery
  4. AI            Artificial Intelligence
  5. ALGOL  Algorithic Language
  6. ALU        Arithmetic Logic Unit
  7. AMD      Advanced Micro Devices
  8. ARPANET             Advanced Research Project Agency Network
  9. ASCII     American Standard Code for Information Interchange
  10. BASIC    Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
  11. BCD        Binary Coded Decimal
  12. BIOS      Basic Input Output System
  13. BIPS       Billions of Instructions Per Second
  14. BPI         Bytes Per Inch
  15. CAD       Computer Aided Design
  16. CAE        Computer Aided Engineering
  17. CAN       Campus Area Network
  18. CASE      Computer Aided Software Engineering
  19. CD          Compact Disk
  20. CDC        Control Data Corporation
  21. CD-R      CD-Recordable
  22. CD-ROM              Compact Disk Read Only Memory
  23. CD-RW  CD Read/Write
  24. CL           Command Language
  25. CLI          Command Line Interface
  26. COBOL  Common Business Oriented
  27. CODASYL             Conference On Data Systems
  28. CPU       Central Processing Unit
  29. CRT        Cathode Ray Tube
  30. D/A        Digital-to-Analog
  31. DAT        Digital Audio Tape
  32. DBMS    Data Base Management System
  33. DBS        Demand Based Switching
  34. DDL        Data Definition Language
  35. DDS        Digital Data Storage
  36. DEC        Digital Equipment Corporation
  37. DMA      Direct Memory Access
  38. DNA       Digital Network Architecture
  39. DPI         Dots Per Inch
  40. DRAM   Dynamic RAM
  41. DSN       Distributed Systems Network
  42. DTS        Digital Theater System
  43. DVD       Digital Video/Versatile Disk
  44. EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
  45. EDSAC   Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator
  46. EDVAC  Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Calculator
  47. EFM       Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation
  48. ENIAC   Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator
  49. EPG        Electronic Programming Guide
  50. EPIC       Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing
  51. EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
  52. FAT        File Allocation Table
  53. FDM      Frequency Division Multiplexing
  54. FEP         Front End Processor
  55. FLOPS   Floating Point Operations Per Second
  56. FM         Frequency Modulation
  57. FMS       File Management System
  58. FORTRAN            Formula Translation
  59. FSK         Frequency Shift Keying
  60. FTP         File Transfer Protocol
  61. GB          Giga Bytes
  62. GFLOPS                Giga FLOPS
  63. GHz        Giga Hertz
  64. GNU      Gnu Not Unix
  65. GPRS     General Packet Radio Service
  66. GSM      Global System for Mobile communication
  67. GUI        Graphical User Interface
  68. HP          Hewlett Packard
  69. HSS        Hierarchical Storage System
  70. HTML    HyperText Markup Language
  71. HTTP      HyperText Transport Protocol
  72. IBM        International Business Machine
  73. IC            Integrated Circuit
  74. IDN        Integrated Digital Networks
  75. IP            Internet Protocol
  76. IrDA       Infrared Data Association
  77. ISDN      Integrated Services Digital Network
  78. ISP          Internet Service Provider
  79. JPEG      Joint Photographic Experts Group
  80. JRE         Java Runtime Engine
  81. JSP         Java Server Pages
  82. KB           Kilo Bytes
  83. KHz        Kilo Hertz
  84. LAN        Local Area Network
  85. LCD        Liquid Crystal Display
  86. LED         Light Emitting Diode
  87. LPM       Line Per Minute
  88. LSI          Large Scael Integration
  89. MAN     Metropolitan Area Network
  90. MAR      Memory Address Register
  91. MB         Mega Bytes
  92. MBR      Memory Buffer Register
  93. MHz       Mega Hertz
  94. MIDI      Musical Instrument Digital Interface
  95. MIPS     Millions of Instructions Per Second
  96. MNP      Microcom Network Protocol
  97. MPEG   Moving Pictures Experts Group
  98. MS-DOS               Microsoft Disk Operating System
  99. MVT      Multiprogramming with Variable Tasks
  100. NIC         Network Interface Card
  101. NICNET National Informatics Center NETwork
  102. NOS       Network Operating System
  103. OCR       Optical Character Recognition
  104. OMR      Optical Mark Reader
  105. OS          Operating System
  106. OSI         Open System Interconnection
  107. OSS        Open Source Software
  108. PAN       Personal Area Network
  109. PC           Personal Computer
  110. PDF        Portable Document Format
  111. PDL        Program Design Language
  112. PDP        Program Data Processor
  113. PIP         Peripheral Interchange Program
  114. PROM   Programmable Read-Only Memory
  115. QoS        Quality of Service
  116. RAM      Random Access Memory
  117. ROM      Read Only Memory
  118. SDLC      Software Development Life Cycle
  119. SEQUEL                Structured English QUEry Language
  120. SGML    Syntax for Generalized Markup Language
  121. SIMM    Single In-line Memory Module
  122. SNA       Systems Network Architecture
  123. SNOBOL               StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language
  124. SQL        Structured Query Language
  125. SRAM    Static RAM
  126. SSI          Small Scale Integration
  127. TB           Tera Bytes
  128. TCP        Transport Control Protocol
  129. TDM      Time Division Multiplexing
  130. UDP       User Datagram Protocol
  131. ULSI       Ultra Large Scale Integration
  132. UPC       Universal Product Code
  133. URL        Uniform Resource Locator
  134. USB        Universal Serial Bus
  135. UTF        Unicode Transformation Format
  136. VAN       Value Added Network
  137. VCR        Video Cassette Recorder
  138. VDT        Video Display Terminal
  139. VGA       Video Graphics Array
  140. VOD       Video-On-Demand
  141. VoIP      Voice over Internet Protocol
  142. VSAT     Very Small Aperture Terminal
  143. WAN     Wide Area Network
  144. WAP      Wireless Application Protocol
  145. WiMAX Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
  146. WLAN   Wireless Local Area Network
  147. WLL        Wireless Local Loop
  148. WORM Write Once Read Many
  149. WWW   World Wide Web
  150. XHTML  eXtensible HyperText Markup Language
  151. XML       eXtensible Markup Language
  152. X.400     Electronic Mail Protocol
  153. X.500     Directory Server Protocol

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