List of computing and IT abbreviations
There are many abbreviations associated with the computer industry - PC, IT, CPU etc. Add them to this alphabetical listing.
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- AA - anti-aliasing
- AABB - Axis aligned bounding box
- AAC - Advanced Audio Coding (audio compression format defined by the MPEG-2 standard)
- ACID - Atomiticy Consistency Isolation Durability
- ACM
- ACPI - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
- APCI - Application-Layer Protocol Control Information
- APIC - Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
- ADC - Apple Display Connector (DVI variant)
- ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, variant of DSL
- AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port, sometimes used with a suffix indicating the port's bandwidth, like APG4x
- AI - artificial intelligence
- AMD - Advanced Micro Devices
- AMI - American Megatrends ... (BIOS manufacturer)
- AMR - Audio Modem Riser
- ANSI - American National Standards Institute
- API - Application Programming Interface
- ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- ASIC
- AVI - Audio Video Interleaved
- BASIC - Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, acronym was added later, originally it was simply Basic
- BBS - Bulletin Board System
- BIND - Berkeley Internet Name Daemon
- BIOS - Basic Input Output System
- BSA - Business Software Alliance
- BSD - Berkeley Software Distribution (Unix variant)
- BSOD - Blue Screen of Death (MS Windows specific)
- CAD - Computer Aided Design
- CAM
- CASE
- CD-R - CD-Recordable
- CD-RW - CD-Rewritable
- CF - Compact Flash
- CFG - Context-free grammar - control flow graph
- CM - Configuration Management
- CNC
- CPAN - Comprehensive Perl Area Network
- CPU - Central Processing Unit
- CRM
- CS - Computer Science
- CSE - Computer Science Engineering
- CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
- CSS - Content Scrambling System
- CT - Computerized Tomography
- CVS - Concurrent Versioning System
- DB - database
- DBA - database administrator
- DBMS - Database Management System
- DEC - Digital Equipment Company
- DND - drag and drop
- DOS - Disk Operating System
- EEPROM
- ELM
- EPROM
- ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning
- FAT - File Allocation Table
- FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
- FET - Field Effects Transistor
- FPGA - Field Programmable Gate Arrays
- FS - file system
- GB - Gigabyte
- GCC
- GDB - GNU debugger
- GIF - Graphics Interchange Format
- GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out
- GNU - GNU's Not Unix
- GPL - GNU Public License
- GRUB - GRand Unified Boot-loader
- HAL - Hardware Abstraction Layer
- HDD - Hard Disk Drive
- HCI - Human Computer Interaction
- HPFS
- HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
- HTTP - Hypertext Transport Protocol
- HURD
- IBM - International Business Machines
- IP - Internet Protocol
- IEEE
- IS - Information Systems
- ISO
- IT - Information Technology
- JDK - Java Developer's Kit
- JPEG
- JFET
- JFS - Journaling filesystem
- KB - Kilobyte
- KISS - Keep it simple, stupid
- LAN - Local Area Network
- LILO
- LGPL
- MB - Megabyte
- MAN - Metropolitan Area Network
- MMU - Memory Management Unit
- MOSFET - Metal-oxide semiconductor FET
- MPEG - Motion Pictures (Coding) Experts Group
- MS - Microsoft
- MS-DOS - Microsoft DOS
- MSDN - Microsoft Developer's Network
- MUD - Multi-user dungeon
- NCSA
- NFS - Network filesystem
- NIST
- NP - Non-polynomial
- NPU - Numeric processing unit?
- NMI - Non-Maskable Interrupt
- NT
- NTFS - NT file system
- OS - Operating System
- OSS - Open Source Software
- OSDN - Open Source Developer's Network
- PAN - Personal Area Network
- PC - personal computer
- PCMCIA - Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
- PCM - Pulse Coded Modulation
- PDA - Personal digital assistant
- PERL - Practical Extraction and Reporting Language
- PGA - Programmable Gate Arrays
- PINE - PINE Is Not Elm
- PL
- POP - Point of Presence
- POP3 - Post Office Protocol v3
- PS2
- RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
- RAM - Random Access Memory
- RDBMS - Relational Database Management System
- RGB - Red, Green, Blue
- RIP - Routing Information Protocol - raster image processor
- ROM - Read Only Memory
- SAN - Storage Area Network
- SDK - Software Developer's Kit
- SEAL - Semantics-directed Environment Adaptation Language
- SEI - Software Engineering Institute
- SQL - Structured Query Language
- TB - Terabyte
- TCL
- TCP - Transmission Control Protocol
- TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
- TLA - three letter acronym (actually an initialism, not an acronym)
- TLD - top-level domain
- TSP - Traveling Salesman Problem
- TTL - transistor to transistor logic
- TTL - time to live
- VRML - Virtual Reality Markup Language
- WAIS - Wide Area Information Servers
- WAN - Wide Area Network
- WAP - wireless application protocol
- WEP - Wired equivalent protocol?
- WOL - Wake on LAN
- WMA
- WPA (wireless protocol)
- WWW - World Wide Web
- XFS
- XHTML - eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language
- XML
- XUL
- YACC
- YAML
- YAST
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