Acronyms You need to Know on Computer

Acronyms You need to Know on Computer

We keep seeing acronym (Short Word) we don't know in computer so today  i am going to show you the meaning of some Acronyms which are as follows

----A-----

ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

AGP  - Accelerated Graphic Port

ALI - Acer Labs, Incoporated

ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit

AMD - Advanced Micro Device

APC  - American Power Conversion

ASCII  - American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASIC   - Advanced Specific Integrated Circuit

AT   - Advanced technology

ATI  - Advanced Technology Inc.

ATX  - Advanced Technology Extended

----B-----

BFG  -  BFG Technologies

BIOS  - Basic Input Output System

BNC   - Barrel Nut Connector


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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 Minute

CMOS   - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

CPU - Central Processing Unit


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DDR   - Double Data Rate

DDR-SDRAM  - Double data Rate - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

DIMM  -   Dual Inline Memory Module

DRAM   - Dynamic Random Access Memory

DPI   - Dot Per  Inch

DVD  - Digital Versatile Disc

DVD-RAM  - Digital Versatile Disk -Random Access Memory

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ECC - Error Correction Code

ECS  - Elite Computer Systems

EDO  - Extended Data Out

EEPROM   - Electrical Erasable programmable Read-Only Memory


---F---

FCPGA   - 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


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GB  - Gigabytes

GBPS  - Gigabytes Per Second

GDI  -  Graphical Device Interface

GHZ  -  HigaHertz

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HDD  - Hard Disk Drive

HIS   - Hightech Information System

HP  - Hewlett - Packard

HSF  - Heat Sink Fan

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IBM  - International business Machine

IC   - Integrated Circuit

IDE   -  Integrated Drive Electronics

IFS  - Item For Sale

IRQ  - Interrupt Request

ISA   - Industry Standard Architecture

ISO  -  Intenational standard Organization

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----K----

KBps   - Kilobytes Per Second



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LAN    -  Local Area Network

LCD  - Liquid Crystal Display

LDT  - Lightening Data Transport

LED  -  Light Emitting Diode

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MAC  - Media Access Control

MBps   - MegaBytes Per second

MHz  - MegaHertz

MIPS - Million Instructions Per Second

MMX -  Multi - Media Extensions

MSI   -  Micro Star International


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NAS  - Network Attached Storage

NAT -  Network Address Translation

NIC -  Network Interface Card

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OC - Overclock (Over Clock)

OCZ - OCZ Technology

OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer

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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 Converter

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

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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