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1. 1. ALU: Arithmetic logic unit
2. ACPI: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3. AC: Alternating Current
4. AM: Amplitude Modulated
5. AMD: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
6. AMD: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
7. AMI: American Megatrends Inc.
8. ANSI: American National Standards Institute
9. API: Application Program Interface
10. APIC: Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
11. APM: Advanced Power Management
12. ASCII: American Standard Code for Information
Interchange
13. ASIC: Application Specific Integrated Circuit
14. ASPI: Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
15. AT: Advanced Technology
16. ATA: AT Bus Attachment
17. ATAPI: ATA Packet Interface
18. ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode
19. BBS: Bulletin Board System
20. BCC: Block Check Character
21. BSC: Binary Synchronous Communications
22. BSD: Berkeley Standard Distribution
23. BTU: British Thermal Units
24. BCD: Binary Coded Decimal
25. BIOS: Basic Input / Output System
26. BNC: Bayonet Nut Connector
27. BPS: Bytes Per Second
28. bps: bits Per Second
29. CAM: Computer Aided Manufacturing
30. CAD: Computer Aided Design

2. 31. CAS: Column Address Strobe
32. CPU : Central Processing Unit
33. CPI: Clocks Per Instruction
34. CR: Carriage Return
35. CUI : Composite User Interface
36. CRT : Cathode Ray Tube
37. CRC: Cyclical Redundancy Check
38. CD: Carrier Detect & Compact Disc
39. CD-R : Compact Disc-Recordable
40. CD-RW : Compact Disc-ReWritable
41. CD-ROM : Compact disc read-only memory
42. CGA: Color Graphics Adapter
43. CHS: Cylinder Head Sector
44. COMPUTER: Common Oriented Machine Particularly
Used for Trade Education and Research
45. CMOS: Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
46. CPLD: Complex Programmable Logic Device
47. CSR: Command Status Register
48. CRC: Cyclic Redundancy Check
49. CTS: Clear To Send
50. DVI : Digital Visual Interface
51. DVD : Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc
52. DAT: Digital Audio Tape
53. DC: Direct Current
54. DCD: Data Carrier Detect
55. DCE: Data Circuit-terminating Equipment
56. DD: Double Density
57. DEC: Digital Equipment Corporation
58. DIMM: Dual Inline Memory Module
59. DIP: Dual-In-line Package
60. DMA: Direct Memory Access

3. 61. DMI: Desktop Management Interface
62. DOS: Disk Operating System
63. DPE: Data Parity Error
64. DRAM: Dynamic Random Access Memory
65. DS: Double Sided
66. DSP: Digital Signal Processor
67. DSR: Data Set Ready
68. DTA: Disk Transfer Area
69. DTC: Data Terminal Controller
70. DTE: Data Terminating Equipment
71. DTR: Data Terminal Ready
72. EBCDIC: Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange
Code
73. EC: Error Check
74. ECC: Error Check and Correction
75. ECP: Enhanced Communication Port
76. ECU: EISA Configuration Utility
77. EDO: Extended Data Out RAM
78. EEPROM: Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only
Memory
79. EGA: Enhanced Graphics Adapter
80. EIA: Electronic Industries Association
81. EIDE: Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics
82. EISA: Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture
83. EMI: Electro-Magnetic Interference
84. EMF: Electro-Magnetic Force
85. EMM: Expanded Memory Manager
86. EMS: Expanded Memory Specification
87. EOF: End Of File
88. EOL: End Of Line
89. EPP: Enhanced Parallel Port

4. 90. EPROM: Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
91. ESCD: Extended System Configuration Data
92. ESD: Electro-Static Discharge
93. ESDI: Enhanced Small Devices Interface
94. FTP - File Transfer Protocol
95. FAT: File Allocation Table
96. FCC: Federal Communications Commission
97. FDD: Fixed/Floppy Disk Drive
98. FDDI: Fiber Distributed Data Interface
99. FDM: Frequency Division Multiplexing
100. FDX: Full-Duplex Transmission
101. FE: Front End
102. FEP: Front End Processor
103. FF: Form Feed
104. FIFO: First-In First-Out
105. FILO: First-In Last-Out
106. FM: Frequency Modulation
107. FPGA: Field Programmable Gate Array
108. FPM: Fast Page Mode RAM
109. FPU: Floating Point Unit
110. FRC: Functional Redundancy Checking
111. FRU: Field-Replaceable Unit
112. FSF: Free Software Foundation
113. FSK: Frequency Shifty Keying
114. GUI : Graphical user interface
115. GAS: Gallium Arsenide
116. GFLOPS: Billions of Floating Point Operations Per
Second
117. HTML : Hyper Text Markup Language
118. HD: High Density
119. HDD: Hard Disk Drive

5. 120. HDX: Half-Duplex Transmission
121. HFS: Hierarchical File System
122. HPFS: High Performance File System
123. IBM : International Business Machines
124. I/O: Input/Output
125. IC: Integrated Circuit
126. IDE: Integrated Device Electronics
127. IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
128. IMP: Interface Message Processor
129. IP: Internet Protocol
130. IPC: Inter Process Communication
131. IPX: Inter network Packet eXchange
132. IRQ: Interrupt ReQuest
133. ISA: Industry Standard Architecture
134. ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network
135. ISO: International Standards Organization
136. ISR: Interrupt Service Routine
137. IVT: Interrupt Vector Table
138. JFS: Journalized File System
139. KNI: Katmai New Instructions
140. KVA: KiloVolt-Amps
141. LBA: Linear Block Array / Addressing
142. LCD : Liquid crystal display
143. LAN : Local area network
144. LOGO : Language of Graphic-Oriented
145. LED: Light Emitting Diode
146. LF: Line Feed
147. LIF : Low Insertion Force
148. LIM: Lotus/Intel/Microsoft’s Expanded Memory
Manager
149. LRU: Least-Recently Used

6. 150. LSB: Least Significant Byte/bit
151. LSI: Large Scale Integration
152. LUN: Logical Unit Number
153. LASER : Light Amplification by Stimulated
Emission of Radiation
154. MAN : Metropolitan area network
155. MESI: Modified/Exclusive/Shared/Invalid
156. MIPS : Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline
Stages
157. MSo : Micro Soft Office, Multi system operator
158. MB/Mb: Mega Bytes/bits
159. MBR: Master Boot Record
160. MCA: Micro Channel Architecture
161. MCGA: Multi-Color Graphics Array
162. MCM: Multi-Chip Module
163. MDRAM: Multi-bank RAM
164. MFLOPS: Millions of FLOating Point Operations per
Second
165. MFM: Modified Frequency Modulated
166. MHz: MegaHertz
167. MICR: Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
168. MIDI: Musical Instrument Data Interface
169. MIMD: Multiple-Instruction Multiple-Data
170. MISD: Multiple-Instruction Single Data
171. MMX: Multi-Media Extensions
172. MNP: Microcom Network Protocol
173. MODEM: MOdulator / DEModulator
174. MOPS: Millions of Operations Per Second
175. MOS: Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
176. MP: Multi-Processor
177. MPP: Massively Parallel Processor

7. 178. MPS: Multi-Processor System
179. MSB: Most Significant Byte/bit
180. MSDOS: Microsoft’s Disk Operating System
181. SI: Medium Scale Integration
182. MTBF: Mean Time Between Failure
183. N/C: No-Connect
184. NBS: National Bureau of Standards
185. NEMA: National Electrical Manufacturers
Association
186. NFS: Network File System
187. NFU: Not-Frequently Used
188. NIC: Network Interface Card
189. NMI: Non-Maskable Interrupt
190. NMOS: Negatively doped Metal-Oxide
Semiconductor
191. NOP: No OPeration NRU Not-Recently Used
192. NOS: Network Operating System
193. NSF: National Science Foundation
194. NTFS: New Technology File System
195. NVRAM: NonVolatile Random Access Memory
196. OCR: Optical Character Recognition
197. ODI: Open Data link Interface
198. OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer
199. OS: Operating System
200. OSF: Open Software Foundation
201. OSI: Open Systems Interconnect
202. PAL: Programmable Array Logic
203. PB: Push Button
204. PBX: Private Branch eXtender
205. PC: Personal Computer, Program Counter
206. PCB: Printed Circuit Board

8. 207. PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect
208. PCM: Pulse Code Modulation
209. PCMCIA: Personal Computer Memory Card
International Association
210. PE: Processor Element
211. PFF: Page Fault Frequency
212. PGA: Professional Graphics Array
213. PGA: Pin Grid Array
214. PIC: Programmable Interrupt Controller
215. PIO: Programmed Input / Output
216. PIROM: Processor Information ROM
217. PLA: Programmable Logic Array
218. PLCC: Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier
219. PLD: Programmable Logic Devices
220. PLL: Phase Locked Loop
221. PM: Preventive Maintenance
222. PMOS: Positively doped Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
223. PnP: Plug-and-Play
224. POST: Power On Self Test
225. PPP: Point-to-Point Protocol
226. PQFP: Plastic Quad Flat Pack
227. PROM: Programmable Read Only Memory
228. PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Network
229. PSP: Program Segment Prefix
230. PTE: Page Table Entry
231. QAM: Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
232. QFP: Quad Flat Pack
233. QIC: Quarter Inch Cartridge
234. RAM - Random-access memory
235. RAID: Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks

9. 236. RAMDAC: Random Access Memory Digital to
Analogue Converter
237. RAS: Row Address Strobe
238. RCA: Radio Corporation of America
239. RCC: Routing Control Center
240. RDRAM: Rambus DRAM
241. RFC: Request For Comments
242. RFI: Radio Frequency Interference
243. RI: Ring Indicator
244. RISC: Reduced Instruction-Set Computer
245. RLL: Run Length Limited
246. RMS: Root Mean Squared
247. RMW: Read Modify Write
248. ROM: Read Only Memory
249. RPC: Remote Procedure Call
250. RPM: Rotations Per Minute
251. RTC: Real Time Clock
252. RTS: Request To Send
253. SAM: Sequential Access Memory
254. SASI: Shugart Associates Standard Interface
255. SCSI: Small Computer Systems Interface
256. SD: Single Density
257. SDLC: Synchronous Data Link Control
258. SDRAM: Synchronous Dynamic RAM
259. SDRAM DDR: Double Data Rate SDRAM
260. SDRAM BDDR: Bi-Directional Strobed DDR
SDRAM
261. SE: Systems Engineer
262. SEC: Single Edge Contact
263. SFF: Small Form Factor
264. SGRAM: Synchronous Graphics RAM

10. 265. SMS : Short Message Service
266. SIMD: Single-Instruction Multiple-Data
267. SIMM: Single Inline Memory Module
268. SIPP: Single Inline Pinned Package
269. SISD: Single-Instruction Single-Data
270. SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol
271. SMD: Surface Mount Device
272. SMT: Surface Mount Technology
273. SNA: System Network Architecture
274. SNR: Signal to Noise Ratio
275. SOL: Small Out Line
276. SOIC: Small Outline Integrated Circuit
277. SPOOL: Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On Line
278. SPT: Sectors Per Track
279. SPU: Single Processor Unit
280. SRAM: Static Random Access Memory
281. SS: Single Sided
282. STDM: Synchronous Time Division Multiplexing
283. STN: Super Twisted Nematic
284. STU: Streaming Tape Unit
285. SVGA: Super Video Graphics Array
286. TCM: Trellis Code Modulation
287. TCP : Transmission Control Protocol
288. TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol / Internet
Protocol
289. TDM: Time Division Multiplexing
290. TI: Texas Instruments
291. TIA: Telecomm Industry Association
292. TLB: Translation-Look aside Buffer
293. TPI: Tracks Per Inch
294. TRANSISTOR: TRANSformer resISTOR

11. 295. TSR: Terminate and Stay Resident
296. TTL: Transistor-Transistor Logic
297. UAE: Unrecoverable Application Error
298. UART: Universal Asynchronous
Receiver/Transmitter
299. USART: Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous
Receiver/Transmitter
300. UDP: User Datagram Protocol
301. UMB: Upper Memory Block
302. USB: Universal Serial Bus
303. UNIX: A trademark used for a computer disk
operating system
304. UPS - Uninterruptible power supply
305. USL: UNIX System Labs
306. UUCP: UNIX to UNIX Copy Program
307. VIRUS : Vital Information Resources Under Seize
308. VDU : Visual Display Unit
309. VBE: Video BIOS Extensions
310. VCR: Video Cassette RecorderVESA: Video
Enhanced Standards Association
311. VGA: Video Graphics Array
312. VLB: VESA Local Bus
313. VLIW: Very Long Instruction Word
314. VLSI: Very Large Scale Integration
315. VM: Virtual Memory
316. VME: Versa Module Euro-card
317. VRAM: Video Random Access Memory
318. VRT: Voltage Reduction Technology
319. VTR: Video Tape Recorder
320. WAN : Wide area network
321. WATS: Wide Area Telephone Service

12. 322. WD: Western Digital
323. WORM: Write Once - Read-Many
324. WRAM: Window Random Access Memory
325. WS: Wait State
326. WWW : World Wide Web
327. XGA: eXtended Graphics Array
328. XMS: Extended Memory Specification
329. XOR: Exclusive-OR
330. XNOR: Exclusive-NOR
331. XT: eXtended Technology
332. ZIF: Zero Insertion Force