Computer Acroynm's
ACPI = Advance configuration and power interface
ADC = Analog-to-digital converter
ADI = Autodesk device interface
AGP = Accelerated graphics port
ASD = Automatic skip driver
ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ALU = Arithmetic logic unit
ANSI = American National Standard Institute
API = Application programming interface
ASIC = Application-specific integrated circuit
ATIP = Absolute timing in pregroove
BCD = Binary coded decimal
BIOS = Basic input/output system
BIU = Bus interface unit
CAO = Connectivity automation interface
*CAS = Column access strobe
CCD = Charged coupled device
CCITT = Comite Consulatif Internal de Telegraphique et Telephone
CCR = Condition code register
CDFS = Compact disk file system
CGA = Color graphics adapter
CHDOSCP = Change DOS code page
CISC = Complex instruction set computing
CMM = Color management module
CMOS = Complementary metal oxide silicon
COM = Component object model
CPS = Characters per second
CPU = Central processing unit
CR = Control register
CRC = Cyclic redundancy check
CSMA/CD = Carrier sense multiple acess with collision detection
CRT = Cathode-ray tube
CTS = Clear to send
CVF = Compressed volume drive
D2T2 = Dye diffusion thermal transfer
DAC = Digital-to-analog conversion
DAT = Digital audio tape
DDC = Display data control
DDR = Data direction register
DES = Data encryption standard
DHCP = Dynamic host configuration protocol
DIMM = Dual inlne memory module
DIB = Device-independent bitmap
DIP = Dual in line pins
DLC = Data link control
DLL = Dynamic link library (File extension)
DMA = Direct memory acess
DMI =
DNS = Domain name system
DOS = Disk operating system
DPI = Dots per inch
DPMI = DOS protected mode interface
DPMS = Display power management signaling
DRAM = Dynamic random acess memory
DSL =
DSP = Digital signal processor
DSR = Data set ready
DTL = Diode transistor logic
DTP = Desktop publishing
DTR = Data terminal ready
EC = Error correction
ECP = Enhanced capabilities port
EDO = Extended data out
EEP = Extended parallel port
EEPROM = Electrically erasable programmable read-only memory
EGA = Enhanced graphics adapter
EIDA = Enhanced integrated device electronics
EISA = Extended industry standard architecture
EMM = Expanded memory manager
EMS = Expanded memory specification
EPROM = Erasable programmable read-only memory
EPS = Encapsulated postscript
ESDI = Enhanced system device interface
ESDI = Enhanced small disk interface
FAT = File allocation table
Fax = shortened form of the word facsimile and X for transmission
FCB = File control block
FET = Field effect transistor
FPU = Floating point unit
FTP = File transfer protocol
GDI = Graphics design interface
GDI = Graphics device interface
GUI = Graphical user interface
HIMEM = High memory
HMD = Head mounted display
HPFS = High performance file system
HTML = Hyper text markup lanquage
HTTP = Hyper text transfer protocl
IBM = International bussiness machine
ICs = Integrated circuits
IDA = Intelligent drive array
IDE = Integrated disk electronics
IEEE = Insitute of electrcal and electronics engineers
ICC = International color consortium
ICDN = Integrated services digital network
ICM = Image color matching
I/O = Input output
IP = Internet protocol
IR = Instruction register
IRQs = Interrupts
ISAM =
ISA = Industry standard architecture
ISDN = Integrated services digital network
JEU = Jump execution unit
LAN = Local area network
LBA = Logical block addressing
LCD = Liquid crystal display
LED = Light emitting diode
LIM EMS = Lotus-Intel-Microsoft expanded memory specification
LQ = Letter quality
MBR = Master boot record
MCA = Microchannel architecture
MDA = Monochrome display adapter
MFM = Modified frequency modulation
MHz = Megahertz
MIDI = Musical instrument digital interface
MIME = Multipurpose internet mail extension
MIS = Management information systems
MOS = Metal oxide silicon
MPEG = Motion picture expert group
MPU = Microprocessor
MREQ = Memory request
MTBF = Mean time before failure
NETBIOS = Network basic input/output system
NLQ = Near letter quality
NLS = National lanquage support (NLSFUNC)
NMOS = Negative metal oxide silicon
ODBC = Open data base connectivity
OEM = Original equipment manufacturer
OCR = Optical character recognition
OLE = Object linking and embeding
OOP = Object-oriented programs
OPC = Organic photoconducting catridge
OS = Operating system
PCI = Peripheral component interconnect
PCL = Postscript composition lanquage
PCM = Pulse code modulation
PCMCIA = Personal computer memory card interface association
PDR = Peripheral data register
PIA = Peripheral interface adapter
PMOS = Positive metal oxide silicon
POP = Post office protocol
POSIX = Portable operating system interface for computing
POST = Power-on self-test
PSS = Product support service
QEMM =
QIC = Quarter inch cartridge
RAID = Redundant array of inexpensive drives
RAM = Random-acess memory
RAS = Remote acess service
*RAS = Row address strobe
RD = Read line
RFC = Request for comments
RGB = Red, green, and blue
RISC = Reduced instruction set computing
RLE = Run length encoding
RLL = Run length limited
ROM = Read-only memory
RPC = Remote procedure call
RPCPP = Remote procedure call print provider
RTC = Real time clock
RTL = Resistor transistor logic
RTS = Request to send
SDRAM = Sychronous dynamic random access memory
SCSI = Small computer system interface
SGRAM = Synchronous graphics random access memory
SIMD = Single instruction multiple data
SIMM = Single in-line memory module
SIP = Single in-line package
SPARC = Scalable processor architecture
SQL = Structured query lanquage
SRAM = Static random access memory
SMD = Surface mount drvice
SMTP = Simple mail transport protocol
SNMP = Simple network management protocol
SRAM = Static RAM
STDERR = Standard error
STDIN = Standard input
STDOUT = Standard output
STI = Still imaging
S-VGA = Super video graphics array
TAD = Telephone answering service
TAPI = Telephony application programming interface
TBU = Tape backup unit
TCP/IP = Transmission control protocol/Internet protocol
TSOP = Thin small outline packages
TSR = Terminate-and-stay-resident
TTL = Transistor transistor logic
UART = Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter
UDP = User datagram protocol
UMB = Upper memory block
UNC = Universal naming convention(names that start with 2 backslashes //)
UPC = Universal product code
URL = Uniform resource protocol
USB = Universal serial bus
VBS = Volume block size
VDG = Video display generator
VESA = Video electronics standards association
VFAT = Virtual file allocation table
VGA = Video graphics array
VIA = Versatile interface adapter
VIC = Video interface chip
VMA = Valid memory address
VMM = Virtual machine manager
VRAM = Video RAM
VRE = Voltage regulator
VxD = Virtual device driver
WAN = Wide area network
WAV
*WE = Write enable
WDM = Windows driver model
WINS = Windows internet name service
WORM = Write once read many
WOW = Windows on Windows
WR = Write line
XMS = Extended memory specification
Format a floppy
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