Sunday, May 6, 2012

Abbreviations and full forms

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 
BFG – BFG Technologies 
BIOS – Basic Input Output System 
BNC – Barrel Nut Connector 
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) 
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 
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 
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 
GB – Gigabytes 
GBps – Gigabytes per second or Gigabits per second 
GDI – Graphical Device Interface 
GHz – GigaHertz 
HDD – Hard Disk Drive 
HIS – Hightech Information System Limited 
HP – Hewlett-Packard Development Company 
HSF – Heatsink-Fan 
HTTP– Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
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 
JBL – JBL (Jame B. Lansing) Speakers 
JVC – JVC Company of America 
Kbps – Kilobits Per Second KBps – KiloBytes per second 
LG – LG Electronics 
LAN – Local Area Network 
LCD – Liquid Crystal Display 
LDT – Lightning Data Transport 
LED – Light Emitting Diode 
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 
NAS – Network Attached Storage 
NAT – Network Address Translation 
NEC – NEC Corporation 
NIC – Network Interface Card 
OC – Overclock (Over Clock) 
OCZ – OCZ Technology 
OEM – Original Equipment Manufacturer 
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 
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 
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 
TB – Terabytes 
TBps – Terabytes per second 
Tbps – Terabits per second 
TDK – TDK Electronics 
TEC – Thermoelectric Cooler
TCP – Transmission Control Protocol
TPC – TipidPC 
TWAIN – Technology Without An Important Name 
UART – Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter 
URL – Uniform Recourse Locator 
USB – Universal Serial Bus 
UTP – Unshieled Twisted Pair 
VCD – Video CD 
VPN – Virtual Private Network 
WAN – Wide Area Network 
WTB – Want to Buy 
WYSIWYG – What You See Is What You Get 
XGA – Extended Graphics Array 
XFX – XFX Graphics, a Division of Pine 
XML – eXtensible Mark-up Language 
XMS – Extended Memory Specification 
XT – Extended Technology
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