Computer Related Most Important Full Forms
ACPI : Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
ALU : Arithmetic logic unit
AC : Alternating Current
AM : Amplitude Modulated
AMD : Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
AMI : American Megatrends Inc.
ANSI : American National Standards Institute
APIC : Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
APM : Advanced Power Management
ASCII : American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASIC : Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASPI : Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
AT : Advanced Technology
ATA : AT Bus Attachment
ATAPI : ATA Packet Interface
ATM : Asynchronous Transfer Mode
BBS : Bulletin Board System
BCC : Block Check Character
BSC : Binary Synchronous Communications
BSD : Berkeley Standard Distribution
BTU : British Thermal Units
BCD : Binary Coded Decimal
BIOS : Basic Input / Output System
BNC : Bayonet Nut Connector
BPS/bps : Bytes/bits Per Second
CAM : Computer Aided Manufacturing
CAD : Computer Aided Design
CAS : Column Address Strobe
CPU : Central Processing Unit
CPI : Clocks Per Instruction
CR : Carriage Return
CUI : Composite User Interface
CRT : Cathode Ray Tube
CRC : Cyclical Redundancy Check
CD : Carrier Detect & Compact Disc
CD-R : Compact Disc-Recordable
CD-RW : Compact Disc-ReWritable
CD-ROM : Compact disc read-only memory
CGA : Color Graphics Adapter
CHS : Cylinder Head Sector
COMPUTER : Common Oriented Machine Particularly Used for Trade Education and Research
CMOS : Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
CSR : Command Status Register
CTS : Clear To Send
DVI : Digital Visual Interface
DVD : Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc
DAT : Digital Audio Tape
DC : Direct Current
DCD : Data Carrier Detect
DCE : Data Circuit-terminating Equipment
DD : Double Density
DEC : Digital Equipment Corporation
DIP : Dual-In-line Package
DMA : Direct Memory Access
DMI : Desktop Management Interface
DOS : Disk Operating System
DPE : Data Parity Error
DRAM : Dynamic Random Access Memory
DS : Double Sided
DSP : Digital Signal Processor
DSR : Data Set Ready
DTC : Data Terminal Controller
DTE : Data Terminating Equipment
DTR : Data Terminal Ready
EBCDIC : Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EC : Error Check
ECC : Error Check and Correction
ECP : Enhanced Communication Port
ECU : EISA Configuration Utility
EDO : Extended Data Out RAM
EEPROM : Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EGA : Enhanced Graphics Adapter
EIA : Electronic Industries Association
EIDE : Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics
EISA : Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture
EMI : Electro-Magnetic Interference
EMF : Electro-Magnetic Force
EMS : Expanded Memory Specification
EOF : End Of File
EOL : End Of Line
EPP : Enhanced Parallel Port
EPROM : Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
ESCD : Extended System Configuration Data
ESD : Electro-Static Discharge
ESDI : Enhanced Small Devices Interface
FTP : File Transfer Protocol
FAT : File Allocation Table
FCC : Federal Communications Commission
FDD : Fixed/Floppy Disk Drive
FDDI : Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FDM : Frequency Division Multiplexing
FDX : Full-Duplex Transmission
FE : Front End
FEP : Front End Processor
FF : Form Feed
FIFO : First-In First-Out
FILO : First-In Last-Out
FM : Frequency Modulation
FPGA : Field Programmable Gate Array
FPM : Fast Page Mode RAM
FPU : Floating Point Unit
FRC : Functional Redundancy Checking
FRU : Field-Replaceable Unit
FSF : Free Software Foundation
FSK : Frequency Shifty Keying
GUI : Graphical user interface
GAS : Gallium Arsenide
GFLOPS : Billions of Floating Point Operations Per Second
HTML : Hyper Text Markup Language
HD : High Density / Hard Disk
HDD : Hard Disk Drive
HDX : Half-Duplex Transmission
HFS : Hierarchical File System
HPFS : High Performance File System
IBM : International Business Machines, Indian Bureau of Mines
I/O : Input/Output
IC : Integrated Circuit
IDE : Integrated Device Electronics
IEEE : Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IMP : Interface Message Processor
IPC : Inter Process Communication
IPX : Inter network Packet eXchange
IRQ : Interrupt ReQuest
ISA : Industry Standard Architecture
ISDN : Integrated Services Digital Network
ISO : International Standards Organization
ISP : INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER
JFS : Journalized File System
KNI : Katmai New Instructions
KVA : KiloVolt-Amps
LBA : Linear Block Array / Addressing
LCD : Liquid crystal display
LAN : Local area network
LOGO : Language of Graphic-Oriented
LED : Light Emitting Diode
LF : Line Feed
LIM : Lotus/Intel/Microsoft’s Expanded Memory Manager
LRU : Least-Recently Used
LSB/lsb : Least Significant Byte/bit
LSI : Large Scale Integration
LUN : Logical Unit Number
LASER : Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
MAN : Metropolitan area network
MIPS : Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
MSo : Micro Soft Office, Multi system operator
MB/Mb : Mega Bytes/bits
MBR : Master Boot Record
MCA : Micro Channel Architecture
MCGA : Multi-Color Graphics Array
MCM : Multi-Chip Module
MDRAM : Multi-bank RAM
MFLOPS : Millions of FLOating Point Operations per Second
MFM : Modified Frequency Modulated
MHz : MegaHertz
MICR : Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
MIDI : Musical Instrument Data Interface
MIMD : Multiple-Instruction Multiple-Data
MISD : Multiple-Instruction Single Data
MMX : Multi-Media Extensions
MNP : Microcom Network Protocol
MODEM : MOdulator / DEModulator
MOPS : Millions of Operations Per Second
MOS : Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
MP : Multi-Processor
MPP : Massively Parallel Processor
MPS : Multi-Processor System
MSB/msb : Most Significant Byte/bit
MSDOS : Microsoft’s Disk Operating System
SI : Medium Scale Integration
MTBF : Mean Time Between Failure
N/C : No-Connect
NBS : National Bureau of Standards
NEMA : National Electrical Manufacturers Association
NFS : Network File System
NFU : Not-Frequently Used
NMI : Non-Maskable Interrupt
NMOS : Negatively doped Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
NOP : No OPeration NRU Not-Recently Used
NSF : National Science Foundation
NVRAM : NonVolatile Random Access Memory
OCR : Optical Character Recognition
ODI : Open Data link Interface
OEM : Original Equipment Manufacturer
OS : Operating System
OSF : Open Software Foundation
OSI : Open Systems Interconnect
PAL/PLA : Programmable Array Logic / Logic Array
PB : Push Button
PBX : Private Branch eXtender
PC : Personal Computer, Program Counter
PCB : Printed Circuit Board
PCI : Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCM : Pulse Code Modulation
PCMCIA : Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PE : Processor Element
PFF : Page Fault Frequency
PGA : Professional Graphics Array
PGA : Pin Grid Array
PIC : Programmable Interrupt Controller
PIO : Programmed Input / Output
PIROM : Processor Information ROM
PLCC : Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier
PLL : Phase Locked Loop
PM : Preventive Maintenance
PMOS : Positively doped Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
PnP : Plug-and-Play
POST : Power On Self Test
PPP : Point-to-Point Protocol
PQFP : Plastic Quad Flat Pack
PROM : Programmable Read Only Memory
PSTN : Public Switched Telephone Network
PTE : Page Table Entry
QAM : Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
QFP : Quad Flat Pack
QIC : Quarter Inch Cartridge
RAM : Random-access memory
RAID : Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks
RAMDAC : Random Access Memory Digital to Analogue Converter
RAS : Row Address Strobe
RCA : Radio Corporation of America
RCC : Routing Control Center
RDRAM : Rambus DRAM
RFC : Request For Comments
RFI : Radio Frequency Interference
RI : Ring Indicator
RISC : Reduced Instruction-Set Computer
RLL : Run Length Limited
RMS : Root Mean Squared
RMW : Read Modify Write
ROM : Read Only Memory
RPC : Remote Procedure Call
RPM : Rotations Per Minute
RTC : Real Time Clock
RTS : Request To Send
SAM : Sequential Access Memory
SASI : Shugart Associates Standard Interface
SCSI : Small Computer Systems Interface
SD : Single Density
SDLC : Synchronous Data Link Control
SDRAM : Synchronous Dynamic RAM
SDRAM DDR : Double Data Rate SDRAM
SDRAM BDDR : Bi-Directional Strobed DDR SDRAM
SE : Systems Engineer
SEC : Single Edge Contact
SFF : Small Form Factor
SGRAM : Synchronous Graphics RAM
SMS : Short Message Service
SIMD : Single-Instruction Multiple-Data
SIMM : Single Inline Memory Module
SIPP : Single Inline Pinned Package
SISD : Single-Instruction Single-Dat
SLIP : Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMD : Surface Mount Device
SMT : Surface Mount Technology
SNA : System Network Architecture
SNR : Signal to Noise Ratio
SO/SOL : Small Out Line
SOIC : Small Outline Integrated Circuit
SPOOL : Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On Line
SPT : Sectors Per Track
SPU : Single Processor Unit
SRAM : Static Random Access Memory
SS : Single Sided
STDM : Synchronous Time Division Multiplexing
STN : Super Twisted Nematic
STU : Streaming Tape Unit
SVGA : Super Video Graphics Array
TCM : Trellis Code Modulation
TCP/IP : Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
TDM : Time Division Multiplexing
TI : Texas Instruments
TIA : Telecomm Industry Association
TLB : Translation-Look aside Buffer
TPI : Tracks Per Inch
TRANSISTOR : TRANSformer resISTOR
TSR : Terminate and Stay Resident
TTL : Transistor-Transistor Logic
UAE : Unrecoverable Application Error
UART : Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
UDP : User Datagram Protocol
UMB : Upper Memory Block
UNIX : A trademark used for a computer disk operating system
UPS : Uninterruptible power supply
USL : UNIX System Labs
UUCP : UNIX to UNIX Copy Program
VIRUS : Vital Information Resources Under Seize
VDU : Visual Display Unit
VBE : Video BIOS Extensions
VCR : Video Cassette RecorderVESA: Video Enhanced Standards Association
VGA : Video Graphics Array
VLB : VESA Local Bus
VLIW : Very Long Instruction Word
VLSI : Very Large Scale Integration
VM : Virtual Memory
VME : Versa Module Euro-card
VRAM : Video Random Access Memory
VRT : Voltage Reduction Technology
VTR : Video Tape Recorder
WAN : Wide area network
WATS : Wide Area Telephone Service
WD : Western Digital
WORM : Write Once - Read-Many
WRAM : Window Random Access Memory
WS : Wait State
WWW : World Wide Web
XGA : eXtended Graphics Array
XMS : Extended Memory Specification
XOR : Exclusive-OR
XT : eXtended Technology
ZIF : Zero Insertion Force
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