COMPUTER ABBREVIATIONS

·         COMPUTER ABBREVIATIONS

AGP : Accellerated Graphics Port

ARPANET: Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

BIOS : Basic Input- Output System.

CAD : Computer Aided Design.

CD : Compact Disc.

CDAC : Centre for Development of Advanced Parallel Computing.

CDMA : Code Division Multiple Access.

C-DOT : Center for Development of Telematrics.

GAIS : Gateway Internet Access Service

HTTP : Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

ROM : Read Only Memory

RAM : Random Access Memory

MODEM : Modulation : Demodulation.

PSTN : Public Switched Public Data Network.

PSPDN : Pocket Switched Public.

RABAN : Remote Area Business Message Network.

LAN : Local Area Network

WAN : Wide Area Network .

MAN : Metropolitan Area Network.

E-Mail : Electronic Mail.

LDU : Liquid Display Unit.

CPU : Central Processing Unit.

CAM : Computer Aided Manufacturing.

CATScan : Computerized Axial Tomography Scan .

COBOL : Common Business Oriented Language.

COMAL : Common Algorithmic Language.

DOS : Disk Operating System.

DTS : Desk Top System

DTP : Desk Top Publishing.

E-Commerce : Electronic Commerce.

ENIAC : Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator

FAX : Far Away Xerox.

FLOPS : Floating Operations Per Second.

FORTRAN : Formula Translation.

HLL : High Level Language.

HTML : Hyper Text Markup Language.

IBM : International Business Machine.

IC : Integrated Circuit

ISH : International Super Highway.

LISP : List Processing.

LLL : Low Level Language

MICR : Magnetic Ink Character Recognizer.

MIPS : Millions of Instructions Per Second.

MOPS : Millions of Operations Per Second.

MPU : Micro Processor Unit.

NICNET : National Information Center Network.

OMR : Optical Mark Reader.

PC-DOT : Personal Computer Disk Operation System.

PROM : Programmable Read Only Memory.

SNOBOL : String Oriented Symbolic Language.

UPS : Uninterpretable Power Supply.

VDU : Visual Display Unit.

VLSI : Very Large Scale Integrated.

WWW : World Wide Web.

WLAN : Wireless Local Area Network.

Wi-fi : Wireless Fidelity

TIFF : Tagged Image File Format

e-SATA : External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

WiMAX : Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access

JPEG : Joint Photographic Experts Group

GIF : Graphics Interchange Format

ATX : Advanced Technology Extended

UATX : Ultra Advanced Technology Extended

FATX : Flex Advanced Technology Extended

MATX : Micro Advanced Technology Extended

EEATX : Enhanced Extended Advanced Technology Extended

DDR SDRAM : Double-Data-Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

DDR RAM : Double-Data-Rate Random Access Memory

GUI : Graphical User Interfaces

CUI : Command User Interfaces

NAT : Network Address Translation

BIOS:Basic Input/Output System

SCSI: Small Computer Systems Interface

OCR:Optical Character Recognition

PCI:Peripheral Component Interface

PDA:Personal Digital Assistant

MIDI:Musical Instrument Digital Interface

BPS:Bites Per Second

KBPS:KiloBits Per Second

MPEG:Motion Picture Experts Group

JPEG:Joint Photographic Expert Group

LCD:Liquid Crystal Display

MAC:Media Access Control