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
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
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
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
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/Microsofts Expanded Memory Manager
149. LRU - Least-Recently Used
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 RA
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
178. MPS - Multi-Processor System
179. MSB - Most Significant Byte/bit
180. MSDOS - Microsoft's Disk Operating System
181. MSI - 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
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
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
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
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 Recorder
311. VESA - Video Enhanced Standards Association
312. VGA - Video Graphics Array
313. VLB - VESA Local Bus
314. VLIW - Very Long Instruction Word
315. VLSI - Very Large Scale Integration
316. VM - Virtual Memory
317. VME - Versa Module Euro-car
318. VRAM - Video Random Access Memory
319. VRT - Voltage Reduction Technology
320. VTR - Video Tape Recorder
321. WAN - Wide area network
322. WATS - Wide Area Telephone Service
323. WD - Western Digital
324. WORM - Write Once Read-Many
325. WRAM - Window Random Access Memory
326. WS - Wait State
327. WWW - World Wide Web
328. XGA - eXtended Graphics Array
329. XMS - Extended Memory Specification
330. XOR - Exclusive-OR
331. XNOR - Exclusive-NOR
332. XT - eXtended Technology
333. ZIF - Zero Insertion Force
