Some Important Computer Abbreviations (A-M)
NOTE:
Commonly asked terms are highlighted.
ADC Analog-to-Digital Converter
ADSL – Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AGP – Accelerated Graphics Port
AI—Artificial
Intelligence
ALU –
Arithmetic Logic Unit
AM—Amplitude Modulation
ANSI-American
National Standards Institute
API- Application Program Interface
ATM Asynchronous Tran
sfer Mode
ASCII –
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASPI – Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
AT – Advanced Technology
BASIC -Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BCD—Binary Coded Decimal
BIOS –
Basic Input Output System
CAD-Computer-Aided
Design
CD – Compact Disk
CDR – Compact Disk Recorder
CDRW –
Compact Disk Re-Writable
CD-ROM
– Compact Disk – Read Only Memory
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CISC Complex
Instruction Set Computing
CMOS – Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CPU –
Central Processing Unit
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CSS Cascading Style
Sheet
DDL Data Definition Language
DNS Domain Name System
DOS Disk Operating System
DRAM –
Dynamic Random Access Memory
DPI – Dots Per Inch
DSL – Digital Subscriber Line
EBCDIC—Extended
Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EDSAC—Electronic
Delay Storage Automatic Calculator
EDVAC—Electronic
Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
EPROM—Erasable
Programmable Read-Only Memory
EEPROM—Electronically
Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
ENIAC—Electronic
Numerical Integrator And Computer
FDD – Floppy Disk Drive
FIFO First In, First
Out
FPS – Frame Per Second
FPU – Floating Point Unit
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FORTRAN-Formuls
Translation
GB –
Gigabytes
GDI – Graphical Device Interface
GHz – GigaHertz
GIGO- Garbage In, Garbage Out
GUI-
Graphical User Interface
HDD – Hard Disk Drive
HTML-
Hyper-Text Markup Language
HTTP-
HyperText Transfer Protocol
SHTTP or HTTPS- HyperText Transport Protocol Secure
IBM – International Business Machines Corporation
IC –
Integrated Circuit
IDE – Integrated Drive Electronics
IEEE - Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IP - Internet Protocol
ISO –
International Standards Organization
ISP Internet Service Provider
JPEG—Joint Photographic Experts Group
Kbps – Kilobits Per Second
KBps – KiloBytes per second
LAN –
Local Area Network
LCD – Liquid Crystal Display
LED –
Light Emitting Diode
LSI – Large Scale Integration
MAC – Media Access Control
MB -
MotherBoard or Megabyte
MBps – Megabytes Per Second
MHz – MegaHertz
MICR—Magnetic
Ink Character Recognition
MIPS – Million Instructions Per Second
MMX – Multi-Media Extensions
MS-DOS—Microsoft DOS
