COMPUTER ACRONYMS TWO

---A---
ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port
ALI - Acer Labs, Incorporated
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.
ATX - Advanced Technology Extended

--- B ---
BFG - BFG Technologies
BIOS - Basic Input Output System
BNC - Barrel Nut Connector

--- C ---
CAS - Column Address Signal
CD - Compact Disk
CDR - Compact Disk Recorder
CDRW - Compact Disk Re-Writer
CD-ROM - Compact Disk - Read Only Memory
CFM - Cubic Feet per Minute (ft /min)
CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CPU - Central Processing Unit
CTX - CTX Technology Corporation (Commited to Excellence)

--- D ---

DDR - Double Data Rate
DDR-SDRAM - Double Data Rate - Synchronous Dynamic Random 
            Access Memory
DFI - DFI Inc. (Design for Innovation)
DIMM - Dual Inline Memory Module
DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory
DPI - Dots Per Inch
DSL - See ASDL
DVD - Digital Versatile Disc
DVD-RAM - Digital Versatile Disk - Random Access Memory

--- E ---
ECC - Error Correction Code
ECS - Elitegroup Computer Systems
EDO - Extended Data Out
EEPROM - Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EPROM - Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EVGA - EVGA Corporation

--- 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

--- G ---
GB - Gigabytes
GBps - Gigabytes per second or Gigabits per second
GDI - Graphical Device Interface
GHz - GigaHertz

--- H ---
HDD - Hard Disk Drive
HIS - Hightech Information System Limited
HP - Hewlett-Packard Development Company
HSF - Heatsink-Fan

--- I ---
IBM - International Business Machines Corporation
IC - Integrated Circuit
IDE - Integrated Drive Electronics
IFS- Item for Sale
IRQ - Interrupt Request
ISA - Industry Standard Architecture
ISO - International Standards Organization

--- J ---
JBL - JBL (Jame B. Lansing) Speakers
JVC - JVC Company of America

- K ---
Kbps - Kilobits Per Second
KBps - KiloBytes per second

--- L ---
LG - LG Electronics
LAN - Local Are Network
LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
LDT - Lightning Data Transport
LED - Light Emitting Diode

--- M ---
MAC - Media Access Control
MB   MotherBoard or Megabyte
MBps - Megabytes Per Second
Mbps - Megabits Per Second or Megabits Per Second
MHz - MegaHertz
MIPS - Million Instructions Per Second
MMX - Multi-Media Extensions
MSI - Micro Star International

--- N ---
NAS - Network Attached Storage
NAT - Network Address Translation
NEC - NEC Corporation
NIC - Network Interface Card

--- O ---
OC - Overclock (Over Clock)
OCZ - OCZ Technology
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer

--- 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 / 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

--- 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

--- 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/Philips Digital Interface

--- 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/Transmitter
USB - Universal Serial Bus
UTP - Unshieled Twisted Pair

--- V ---
VCD - Video CD
VPN - Virtual Private Network

--- W ---
WAN - Wide Area Network
WTB - Want to Buy
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get

--- X ---
XGA - Extended Graphics Array
XFX - XFX Graphics, a Division of Pine
XMS - Extended Memory Specification
XT - Extended Technology

COMPUTER ACRONYMS

Computer Term    Acronym
ACL  Access Control List
ADC  Analog-to-Digital Converter
ADF  Automatic Document Feeder
ADSL  Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AGP  Accelerated Graphics Port
AIFF  Audio Interchange File Format
AIX  Advanced Interactive Executive
ANSI  American National Standards Institute
API  Application Program Interface
ARP  Address Resolution Protocol
ASCII  American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASP  Active Server Page or Application Service Provider
ATA  Advanced Technology Attachment
ATM  Asynchronous Transfer Mode
BASIC  Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
Bcc  Blind Carbon Copy
BIOS  Basic Input/Output System
Blob  Binary Large Object
BMP  Bitmap
CAD  Computer-Aided Design
Cc  Carbon Copy
CCD  Charged Coupled Device
CD  Compact Disc
CD-R  Compact Disc Recordable
CD-ROM Compact Disc Read-Only Memory
CD-RW  Compact Disc Re-Writable
CDMA  Code Division Multiple Access
CGI  Common Gateway Interface
CISC  Complex Instruction Set Computing
CMOS  Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CMYK  Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
CPA  Cost Per Action
CPC  Cost Per Click
CPL  Cost Per Lead
CPM  Cost Per 1,000 Impressions
CPS  Classroom Performance System
CPU  Central Processing Unit
CRM  Customer Relationship Management
CRT  Cathode Ray Tube
CSS  Cascading Style Sheet
CTP  Composite Theoretical Performance
CTR  Click-Through Rate
DAC  Digital-to-Analog Converter
DBMS  Database Management System
DDR  Double Data Rate
DDR2  Double Data Rate 2
DHCP  Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DIMM  Dual In-Line Memory Module
DLL  Dynamic Link Library
DMA  Direct Memory Access
DNS  Domain Name System
DOS  Disk Operating System
DPI  Dots Per Inch
DRAM  Dynamic Random Access Memory
DRM  Digital Rights Management
DSL  Digital Subscriber Line
DSLAM  Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
DTD  Document Type Definition
DV  Digital Video
DVD  Digital Versatile Disc
DVD+R  Digital Versatile Disc Recordable
DVD+RW -  Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable
DVD-R  Digital Versatile Disc Recordable
DVD-RAM - Digital Versatile Disc Random Access Memory
DVD-RW   - Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable
DVI       Digital Video Interface
DVR  Digital Video Recorder
ECC  Error Correction Code
EDI  Electronic Data Interchange
EPS  Encapsulated PostScript
EUP  Enterprise Unified Process
FAQ  Frequently Asked Questions
FIFO  First In, First Out
FiOS  Fiber Optic Service
FLOPS  Floating Point Operations Per Second
FPU  Floating Point Unit
FSB  Frontside Bus
FTP  File Transfer Protocol
GIF  Graphics Interchange Format
GIGO  Garbage In, Garbage Out
GIS  Geographic Information Systems
GPS  Global Positioning System
GPU  Graphics Processing Unit
GUI  Graphical User Interface
GUID  Globally Unique Identifier
HDMI  High-Definition Multimedia Interface
HDTV  High Definition Televsion
HDV  High-Definition Video
HFS  Hierarchical File System
HSF  Heat Sink and Fan
HTML  Hyper-Text Markup Language
HTTP  HyperText Transfer Protocol
HTTPS  HyperText Transport Protocol Secure
I/O  Input/Output
ICANN  Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers
ICF  Internet Connection Firewall
ICMP  Internet Control Message Protocol
ICS  Internet Connection Sharing
IDE  Integrated Device Electronics or
Integrated  Development Environment
IEEE  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IGP  Integrated Graphics Processor
IM  Instant Message
IMAP  Internet Message Access Protocol
InterNIC  Internet Network Information Center
IP  Internet Protocol
IPX  Internetwork Packet Exchange
IRC  Internet Relay Chat
IRQ  Interrupt Request
ISA  Industry Standard Architecture
ISCSI  Internet Small Computer Systems Interface
ISDN  Integrated Services Digital Network
ISO  International Organization for Standardization
ISP  Internet Service Provider
IT  Information Technology
IVR  Interactive Voice Response
JPEG  Joint Photographic Experts Group
JRE  Java Runtime Environment
JSP  Java Server Page
Kbps   Kilobits Per Second
KDE  K Desktop Environment
KVM Switch Keyboard, Video, and Mouse Switch
LAN  Local Area Network
LCD   Liquid Crystal Display
LDAP  Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LIFO  Last In, First Out
LPI  Lines Per Inch
LUN  Logical Unit Number
MAC Address Media Access Control Address
MANET Mobile Ad Hoc Network
Mbps Megabits Per Second
MCA Micro Channel Architecture
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIPS Million Instructions Per Second
MP3 MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3
MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group
MTU Maximum Transmission Unit
NAT Network Address Translation
NetBIOS Network Basic Input /
Output System
NIC Network Interface Card
NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol
NOC Network Operations Center
NTFS New Technology File System
OASIS Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
               Standards
OCR Optical Character Recognition
ODBC Open Database Connectivity
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OLAP Online Analytical Processing
OLE Object Linking and Embedding
OOP Object-Oriented Programming
OSPF Open Shortest Path First
P2P Peer To Peer
PC Personal Computer
PCB Printed Circuit Board
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCI-X Peripheral Component
Interconnect Extended
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card
International Association
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
PDF Portable Document Format
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
PIM Personal Information Manager
PMU Power Management Unit
PNG Portable Network Graphic
POP3 Post Office Protocol
PPC Pay Per Click
PPGA Plastic Pin Grid Array
PPI Pixels Per Inch
PPL Pay Per Lead
PPM Pages Per Minute
PPP Point to Point Protocol
PPTP Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
PRAM Parameter Random Access
Memory
PS/2 Personal System/2
QBE Query By Example
RAID Redundant Array of
Independent Disks
RAM Random Access Memory
RDF Resource Description Framework
RDRAM Rambus Dynamic Random
Access Memory
RGB Red Green Blue
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computing
ROM Read-Only Memory
RPC Remote Procedure Call
RPM Revenue Per 1,000 Impressions
RSS RDF Site Summary
RTE Runtime Environment
RTF Rich Text Fomat
RUP Rational Unified Process
SAN Storage Area Network
SATA Serial Advanced Technology
Attachment
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
SD Secure Digital
SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random
Access Memory
SDSL Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line
SEO Search Engine Optimization
SIMM Single In-Line Memory Module
SKU Stock Keeping Unit
SLI Scalable Link Interface
SMART Self-Monitoring Analysis
And Reporting Technology
SMB Server Message Block
SMS Short Message Service
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNMP Simple Network Management
Protocol
SO-DIMM Small Outline Dual In-Line
Memory Module
SOA Service Oriented Architecture
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
SQL Structured Query Language
SRAM Static Random Access Memory
sRGB Standard Red Green Blue
SSH Secure Shell
SSID Service Set Identifier
SSL Secure Sockets Layer
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/
Internet Protocol
TFT Thin-Film Transistor
TIFF Tagged Image File Format
TTL Time To Live
TWAIN Toolkit Without An Informative Name
UDDI Universal Description Discovery
and Integration
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UML Unified Modeling Language
UNC Universal Naming Convention
UPnP Universal Plug and Play
UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
URL Uniform Resource Locator
USB Universal Serial Bus
VCI Virtual Channel Identifier
VFAT Virtual File Allocation Table
VGA Video Graphics Array
VLB VESA Local Bus
VLE Virtual Learning Environment
VoIP Voice Over Internet Protocol
VPI Virtual Path Identifier
VPN Virtual Private Network
VRAM Video Random Access Memory
VRML Virtual Reality Modeling Language
WAIS Wide Area Information Server
WAN Wide Area Network
WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy
Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity
WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access
WWW World Wide Web
XHTML Extensible Hypertext
Markup Language
XML Extensible Markup Language
XSLT Extensible Style Sheet
Language Transformation
Y2K Year 2000
ZIF Zero Insertion Force