COMPUTER Dictionary ACRONYMS
— 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 (Committed 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 – Elite group 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 – High-tech Information System Limited
** HP – Hewlett-Packard Development Company
** HSF – Heat sink-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 Area 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 – Over clock (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 Micro channel 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 – Ram bus 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 – Unshielded 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
** WWW-World wide web.
— X —
** XGA – Extended Graphics Array
** XFX – XFX Graphics, a Division of Pine
** XMS – Extended Memory Specification
** XT – Extended Technology.
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