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Abbreviations and full forms related to Computers

As i am preparing for the IT quiz this week, i have been really busy in collecting and learning resources. At these time i found how hard it is, to get the correct resources from Google and other search engines, from the midst of spam sites. I had to spen a lot of time to find several resources like Computer / IT related abbreviations, Computer / IT related inventions ……etc. So I decided to make a post on it. As this blog has good SEO and rankings, i hope this could show up in the front pages of search engines and hope that this could be useful for someone.

Abbreviations and full forms related to Computers

ADSL – Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

AGP – Accelerated Graphics Port
ALI – Acer Labs, Incorporated
ALU – Arithmetic Logic Unit
AMD – Advanced Micro Devices
APC – American Power Conversion
ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASIC – Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASPI – Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
AT – Advanced Technology
ATI – ATI Technologies Inc.

ATX – Advanced Technology Extended

BFG – BFG Technologies

BIOS – Basic Input Output System
BNC – Barrel Nut Connector

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 per Minute (ft?/min)
CMOS – Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CPU – Central Processing Unit
CTX – CTX Technology Corporation (Commited to Excellence)

DDR – Double Data Rate

DDR-SDRAM – Double Data Rate – Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
DFI – DFI Inc. (Design for Innovation)
DIMM – Dual Inline Memory Module
DRAM – Dynamic Random Access Memory
DPI – Dots Per Inch
DSL – See ASDL
DVD – Digital Versatile Disc
DVD-RAM – Digital Versatile Disk – Random Access Memory

ECC – Error Correction Code

ECS – Elitegroup Computer Systems
EDO – Extended Data Out
EEPROM – Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EPROM – Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EVGA – EVGA Corporation

FC-PGA – 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

GB – Gigabytes
GBps – Gigabytes per second or Gigabits per second
GDI – Graphical Device Interface
GHz – GigaHertz

HDD – Hard Disk Drive
HIS – Hightech Information System Limited
HP – Hewlett-Packard Development Company
HSF – Heatsink-Fan

IBM – International Business Machines Corporation
IC – Integrated Circuit
IDE – Integrated Drive Electronics
IFS- Item for Sale
IRQ – Interrupt Request
ISA – Industry Standard Architecture
ISO – International Standards Organization

JBL – JBL (Jame B. Lansing) Speakers
JVC – JVC Company of America

Kbps – Kilobits Per Second
KBps – KiloBytes per second

LG – LG Electronics
LAN – Local Area Network
LCD – Liquid Crystal Display
LDT – Lightning Data Transport
LED – Light Emitting Diode

MAC – Media Access Control
MB – MotherBoard or Megabyte
MBps – Megabytes Per Second
Mbps – Megabits Per Second or Megabits Per Second
MHz – MegaHertz
MIPS – Million Instructions Per Second
MMX – Multi-Media Extensions
MSI – Micro Star International

NAS – Network Attached Storage
NAT – Network Address Translation
NEC – NEC Corporation
NIC – Network Interface Card

OC – Overclock (Over Clock)
OCZ – OCZ Technology
OEM – Original Equipment Manufacturer

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

RAID – Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RAM – Random Access Memory
RAMDAC – Random Access Memory Digital Analog Convertor
RDRAM – Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory
ROM – Read Only Memory
RPM – Revolutions Per Minute

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

TB – Terabytes
TBps – Terabytes per second
Tbps – Terabits per second
TDK – TDK Electronics
TEC – Thermoelectric Cooler

TCP – Transmission Control Protocol
TPC – TipidPC
TWAIN – Technology Without An Important Name

UART – Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
USB – Universal Serial Bus
UTP – Unshieled Twisted Pair

VCD – Video CD
VPN – Virtual Private Network

WAN – Wide Area Network
WTB – Want to Buy
WYSIWYG – What You See Is What You Get

XGA – Extended Graphics Array
XFX – XFX Graphics, a Division of Pine

XML – eXtensible Mark-up Language
XMS – Extended Memory Specification
XT – Extended Technology

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32 comments

  1. Interesting post, thanks for your tips and insight.

  2. It is a very useful post not only for the basic learners but also for all of us who are associated with this field. We often come across such abbreviated forms and start wondering about the full forms. This post would be a useful one.

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  4. Nice and big list. They’re basically not computer abbreviations but mainly used for internet discussion right?

  5. Quite impressive and educational post. Thanks to remind me my college days.

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  7. Like Rakesh, this post brought memories about my college days (3 years ago). We used to get like 50 questions about these abbreviations on each quiz.

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  9. great stuff and informative too. Here is what i get something different from others

  10. Good.. its very nice.. many person who r in IT/CS wil get mroe benifits of it.. keep it up.. Thanks.

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  13. DOS = Disk Operating System

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  15. really impressive ,being myself as engineering stdnt i find it quite benefit 2 me, thanks:

  16. Thank you for all friends

  17. lot of thaks for the post

  18. Very nice Knowledge but I have a question that XP means

    • It’s believed that Xp means ‘eXperience’ or ‘eXtreme Perfomance’ and also some tells that it’s just a symbol and all….. No correct Idea mate !

  19. It is very useful for student and other thanks…

  20. It is almost impossible to enlist all the computer abbreviations. Still it is a good comprehensive list.

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