Abbreviations Full Form

COMPUTER Commonly Operated Machine Particularly Used for Trade/Technology, Education,

and Research.

AAC Advanced Audio Coding

AI Artificial Intelligence

ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

ALGOL Algorithmic Language

ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit

AOL America Online

API Application Program Interface

APT Automatically Programmed Tooling

ARP Address Resolution Protocol

ASP Active Server Pages

ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode

AVI Audio Video Interleave

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

AT Advanced Technology

AUI Attachment Unit Interface

BASIC Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BCD Binary Coded Decimal

BHTML Broadcast Hyper Text Markup Language

BMP Bitmap

BIOS Basic Input Output System

B2B Business to Business

B2C Business to Consumer

BIU Bus Interface Unit

BPS Bytes Per Second

BCC Blind Carbon Copy

CAI Computer Aided Instruction

CDMA Code Division Multiple Access

CRT Cathode Ray Tube

CAD Computer Aided Design

CADD Computer Aided Design and Drafting

CD Compact Disk

CDRW Compact Disk Rewritable

CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing

CROM Computerized Range of Motion

CDROM Compact Disk Read Only Memory

CMD Command

CISC Complex Instructions Set Computers

COBOL Common Business Oriented Language

CPI Clock / Cycle Per Instruction

CPU Central Processing Unit

CSS Cascading Style Sheets

CUI Character User Interface

DAT Digital Audio Tape

DDR Double Data Rate

DDR – Double Data Rate – Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

SDRAM

DOS Disk Operating System

DOC Data Optimizing Computer

Doc Document

DVD Digital Versatile Disk

DVI Digital Visual Interface

DVDR Digital Versatile Disk Recordable

DVDRW Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable

DBMS Data Base Management System

DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory

DDL Data Definition Language

DHTML Dynamics Hyper Text Markup Language

DNS Domain Name System

DPI Dots Per Inch

DNA Distributed Internet Architecture

DARPANET Defense Advanced Research Project Agency Network

DVR Digital Video Recorder

E-Commerce Electronic Commerce

EDGE Enhanced Data Rate for GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication)
Evolution

EDI Electronic Data Interchange

EDP Electronic Data Processing

EDSAC Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator

EDVAC Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Compute

EB EXA BYTE

EiB EXBI BYTE

EROM Erasable Read Only Memory

EPROM Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

EEPROM Electronically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

E-Mail Electronic Mail

EFS Encrypted File System

EDC Electronic Digital Computer

ENIAC Electronics Numerical Integrator And Calculator

FDC Floppy Disk Controller

FDD Floppy Disk Drive

FORTRAN Formula Translation

FTP File Transfer Protocol

FS File System

FAT File Allocation Table

FPS Frames Per Second

FLOPS Floating Point Operations Per Second

FM Frequency Modulation

GB Giga Byte

GiB GIBI BYTE

GDI Graphical Device Interface

GPRS General Packet Radio Service

GUI Graphical User Interface

GBPS Gigabytes/Gigabits Per Second

3GP 3rd Generation Project

3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project

GML Geography Markup Language

GSM Global System for Mobile Communication

GHz GigaHertz

GIGO Garbage In Garbage Out

HDMI High Definition Multimedia Interface

HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

HTTPS Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure

HTML Hyper Text Markup Language

HD Hard Disk

HDD Hard Disk Drive

HPC Handheld Personal Computer/High Performance Computer

HP Hewlett Packard/Horse Power

HSDPA High Speed Downlink Packet Access

ISO International Organization for Standardization

IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol

INTEL Integrated Electronics

ISP Internet Service Provider

INFO Information

IP Internet Protocol

IPV4 Internet Protocol Version 4

IPV6 Internet Protocol Version 6

IO Input Output

IOP Input Output Processor

IBM International Business Machines

IC Integrated Circuit

IT Information Technology

JAR Java Archive

J2EE Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition

JAD Java Application Descriptor/Development

JPEG Joint Photographic Expert Group

JS Java Script

JSP Java Server Page

KB KILOBYTE

KBD Key Board

Kbps Kilobits/Kilobytes Per Second

LAN Local Area Network

LCD Liquid Crystal Display

LED Light Emitting Diode

LLL Low Level Language

MAN Metropolitan Area Network

MB Motherboard/ Megabyte

MBPS Megabits/Megabytes Per Second

MHz Mega Hertz

MIPS Million Instructions Per Second

MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

MICR Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

MPEG Motion Picture Experts Group

Mp3 MPEG Audio Layer 3

Mp4 MPEG – 4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding)

NAT Network Address Translation

NIC Network Interface Card

NIIT National Institute of Information Technology

NTP Network Time Protocol

NTFS New Technology File System

OMR Optical Mark Reader/Recognition

OOP Object Oriented Programming

OPEN GL Open Graphics Library

OSI Open Systems Interconnection

PC Personal Computer

PPPoA Point to Point Protocol Over ATM

PPPoE Point to Point Protocol Over Ethernet

PDF Portable Document Format

PHP Hypertext Preprocessor

PB PETA BYTE
PiB PEBI BYTE

PNG Portable Network Graphics

PNP Plug and Play

PDA Personal Digital Assistant

PDU Protocol Data Unit / Power Distribution Unit

PPP Point to Point Protocol

PAN Personal Area Network

PROM Programmable Read Only Memory

PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect

POST Power On Self Test

PSU Power Supply Unit

PING Packet Internet/Internetwork Groper

RAM Random Access Memory

RDBMS Relational Data Base Management System

ROM Read Only Memory

RIP Routing Information Protocol

RPM Revolutions Per Minute

RTF Rich Text Format

SMPS Switch Mode Power Supply

SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SRAM Static Random Access Memory

SIM Subscriber Identity Module

SAM Software Asset Management/Sequential Access Method

SNOBOL String Oriented Symbolic Language

SDD Solid State Drive

SW Software

SIU Serial Interface Unit

SMS Short Message Service s

SQL Structured Query Language

TB TERA BYTE

TiB TEBI BYTE

TCP Transmission Control Protocol

TBPS Tera Bytes Per Second

TXT Text

TAPI Telephony Application Programming Interface

UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunication System

URL Uniform Resource Locator

UHF Ultra High Frequency

USB Universal Serial Bus

UNIVAC Universal Automatic Computer/Universal Non Integrated Vacuum Actuated

Computer

UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply

UI User Interface

VAN Value Added Network

VDU Visual Display Unit

VIRUS Vital Information Resource Under Seized

VCD Video Compact Disk

VHF Very High Frequency

VGA Video Graphics Array

VGA Video/Visual Graphic Adapter

VOIP Voice Over Internet Protocol

VRAM Video Random Access Memory

VPN Virtual Private Network

VRML Virtual Reality Modeling Language

WAN Wide Area Network

WORM Write Once Read Many

WWW World Wide Web

WBMP Wireless Bitmap Image

WLAN Wireless Local Area Network

WMV Windows Media Video

WML Wireless Markup Language

WINS Windows Internet Name Service

WMA Windows Media Audio

XT Extended Technology

XMF Extensible Music File

XML Extensible Markup Language

XMS Extended Memory Specification

XHTML Extensible Hyper Text Markup Language

XSL Extensible Style Language

Yahoo Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle

YB YOTTA BYTE

YiB YOBI BYTE

ZB ZETTA BYTE

ZiB Zebi Byte

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