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A-Z COMPUTER FULL FORMS
A
ADSL – Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AGP – Accelerated Graphics Port
ALI – Acer Labs, Incorporated (Brand Name)
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
...
(Brand Name) / Design for Innovation
DIMM – Dual Inline Memory Module
DRAM – Dynamic Random Access Memory
DPI – Dots Per Inch
DSL – Digital Subscriber Line
DVD – Digital Versatile/Video Disc
DVD- R - Digital Versatile/Video Disc Recordable
DVD-RW - Digital Versatile/Video Disc ReWritable
DVD-RAM – Digital Versatile Disk - Random Access Memory
DVD-ROM - Digital Versatile Disk - Read Only Memory
DAC - discretionary access control
DB25 - serial communications D-shell connector, 25 pins
DB9 - 9 pin D shell connector
DC - direct current
DDOS - distributed denial of service
DDR RAM - double data-rate random access memory
DFS - distributed file system
DHCP - dynamic host configuration protocol
DIN - Deutsche Industrie Norm
DNS – Domain Name Service or Domain Name Server
DVI – Digital Visual Interface

E
ECC – Error Correction Code
ECS – Elitegroup Computer Systems (Brand Name)
EDO – Extended Data Out
EEPROM – Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EPROM – Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EVGA – EVGA Corporation (Brand Name)
EMI - Electromagnetic Interference

F
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

FAT - File Allocation Table
FAT12 - 12-Bit File Allocation Table
FAT16 - 16-Bit File Allocation Table
FAT32 - 32-Bit File Allocation Table
FTP - File transfer protocol

G
GB – Gigabytes
GBps – Gigabytes per second or Gigabits per second
GDI – Graphical Device Interface
GHz – GigaHertz
GUI - Graphical User Interface
GPRS - General Packet Radio System
GSM - Global System for Mobile Communications

H
HDD – Hard Disk Drive
HIS – Hightech Information System Limited (Brand Name)
HP – Hewlett-Packard Development Company (Brand Name)
HSF – Heatsink Fan
HDMi - High Definition Media Interface
HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS - Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Sockets Layer

I
IBM – International Business Machines Corporation (Brand Name)
IC – Integrated Circuit
IDE – Integrated Drive Electronics
IFS- Item for Sale
IRQ – Interrupt Request
ISA – Industry Standard Architecture
ISO – International Standards Organization
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IIS - Internet Information Services
IP - Internet Protocol
IPCONFIG - Internet Protocol Configuration
I/O - Input & Output
ISP - Internet service provider

J
JBL – JBL, Jame B
...
, Speakers (Brand Name)
JVC – JVC Company of America (Brand Name)

K

Kbps – Kilobits Per Second
KBps – KiloBytes per second
KB - Kilobyte

L
LG – LG Electronics
LAN – Local Area Network
LCD – Liquid Crystal Display
LDT – Lightning Data Transport
LED – Light Emitting Diode
LiFi – Light Fidelity
LSI - large scale integration

M
MAC – Media Access Control
MB – MotherBoard or Megabyte
MBps – Megabytes Per Second
Mbps – Megabits Per Second or Megabytes Per Second
MHz – MegaHertz
MIPS – Million Instructions Per Second
MMX – Multi Media Extensions
MSI – medium scale integration / Micro Star International
MAN - Metropolitan Area Network
MP3 - Moving Picture Experts Group Layer 3 Audio
MPEG - Moving Picture Experts Group
MSCONFIG - Microsoft Configuration

N
NAS – Network Attached Storage
NAT – Network Address Translation / Translator
NEC – NEC Corporation
NIC – Network Interface Card
NetBIOS - Networked Basic Input Output System
NetBEUI - Networked Basic Input/Output System Extended User Interface
NTFS - New Technology File System
NTLDR - New Technology Loader Data Rate

O
OC – Over Clock
OCZ – OCZ Technology
OEM – Original Equipment Manufacturer
OS - Operating System
OMR - Optical Mark Recognition

P
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 or 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
POP - Post Office Protocol
POP3 - Post Office Protocol 3
PPP - Point-To-Point Protocol
PPTP - Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol

R
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
RGB - Red Green Blue

S
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 or Philips Digital Interface
SMPS - Switch Mode Power Supply
SMTP - Simple Mail Transport Protocol
SSD - Solid State Disk
SSI - small scale integration

T
TB – Terabytes
TBps – Terabytes per second
Tbps – Terabits per second
TDK – TDK Electronics
TEC – Thermoelectric Cooler
TPC – TipidPC
TWAIN – Technology Without An Important Name

U
UART – Universal Asynchronous Receiver or Transmitter
USB – Universal Serial Bus
UTP – Unshieled Twisted Pair
UPS - uninterrupted power supply

V
VCD – Video CD
VPN – Virtual Private Network
VGA - Visual Graphic Adapter/Video Graphic Array
VDU - Visible Display Unit
VRAM - Video Random Access Memory
VLSI - very large scale integration

W
WAN – Wide Area Network
WTB – Want to Buy
WYSIWYG – What You See Is What You Get
WWW - World Wide Web
WLAN - Wireless Local Area Network
WiFi - Wireless Fidelity
WAP - Wireless Application Protocol

X
XGA – Extended Graphics Array
XFX – XFX Graphics, a Division of Pine (Brand Name)
XMS – Extended Memory Specification
XT – Extended Technology

Z
ZIP - Zigzag Inline Package



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