Computer Acronyms

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Name / Description
3D / 3rd Dimension
3D / three Dimensional
3PC / 3rd Party Connect protocol

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Name / Description
A3D / Aureal 3D
AA / Auto Answer (modem)
AAM / Automatic Acoustic Management
AAMQR / Advanced Audio Master Quality Recording
ABIOS / Advanced Basic Input Output System
ABS / Anti-Block System
AC / Alternating Current
AC'97 / Audio Codec '97
ACD / Automatic Call Distribution
ACE / Audio Card Enhancer
ACI / Automatic Channel Installation
ACIS / Alan-Chris-Ian-Spatial
ACK / ACKnowledged
ACL / Access Control List
ACM / Association for Computing Machinery
ACPI / Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
ACT / Arithmetic, Control and Timing
ACTS / Automated Coin Toll System
ADO / ActiveX Data Object
ADPCM / Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation
ADSI / Active Directory Service Interfaces
ADSL / Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line
AEA / American Electronics Association
AEC / Availability Environment Classification
AES / Advanced Encryption Standard
AEX / Audio Environmental eXtension
AF / AutoFocus
AFC / Automatic Frequency Control
AFIS / Automated Fingerprint Identification System
AFTD / American Foreing Trade Definitions
AGM / Alternate Graphics Mode
AGP / Advanced (Accelerated) GraphicsPort
AGRAS / Anti-Glare, Anti-Reflection, Anti-Static
AGTL / Assisted Gunning Transceiver Logic
AH / Authentication Header
AIAF / Artificial Intelligence Auto Focus
AICT / Association Internationale des Critiques de Théatre
AIMM / AGP Inline Memory Module
AIN / Advanced Intelligent Network
AIT / Advanced Intelligent Tape
AITA / Association Internationale du Théatre Amateur
ALI / Acer Labs Inc.
ALGOL / ALGOrithmic Language
ALU / Aritmetic-Logical Unit
AM / Amplitude Modulation
AMA / Automatic Message Accounting
AMBA / Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture
AMC / ATI Multimedia Channel
AMD / Advanced Micro Devices
AMD / Autodesk Mechanical Desktop
AMDC / Advanced Monitor Deflection Control
AMI / Access Method Inc.
AMI / Alternative Mask Inversion
AMI / American Megatrends Inc.
AML / ACPI Machine Language
AMR / Anisotropic MagnetoResistive
AMR / Audio/Modem Riser
ANAC / Automated Number Announcement Circuit
ANSI / American National Standards Institute
AOC / Admiral Overseas Corporation
AOL / America On-Line
AOS / Algebraic Operating System
AP / Access Point
APC / American Power Conversion
APCUG / Association of PC User Groups
APA / All Pixel Address
API / Application Programming Interface
APIC / Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
APM / Advanced Power Management
APS / Advanced Planning and Scheduling
ARCNet / Attached Resource Computer Network
ARLL / Advanced Run Length Limited
ARNS / A Remote Network Server system
ARP / Address Resolution Protocol
ARPANET / Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork
ART / Advanced Resolution Technology
ASA / American Standards Association
ASAP / Accelerated Service Advertising Protocol
ASB / Advanced System Bus
ASC / Auto Size & Center
ASCC / Automatic Sequence-Controlled Calculator
ASCII / American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASEAN / Association of South East Asian Nations
ASIC / Application Specific Integrated Circuits
ASK / Amplitude Shift Keying
ASL / ACPI Source Language
ASM / ASseMbly language
ASP / Active Server Pages
ASP / Application Service Providing
ASPEN / ASP-ENabled
ASPI / Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
AT / Advanced Technology
AT-RMP / AppleTalk Routing Maintenance Protocol
AT-NBP / AppleTalk Name Binding Protocol
AT-ZIS / AppleTalk Zone Information System
ATA / AT Attachment
ATAPI / AT Attachment Packet Interface
ATDP / ATention Dial Pulse
ATDT / ATention Dial Tone
ATF / Automatic Track Following
ATIP / Absolute Time In Pregroove
ATM / Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATM / Adobe Type Manager
ATVEF / Advanced TV Enhancement Forum
AUI / Adapter Unit Interface
AURP / Appletalk Update-based Routing Protocol
AVI / Audio Video Interleave
AVL / Automatic Volume Leveler
AWADVS / Alias/Wavefront ADvanced ViSualizer
AWG / American Wire Gauge
AXP / Animated stand-in object eXternal Process

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Name / Description
B&W / Bowers & Wilkins
BA / Basic Access
BAF / Bellcore AMA Format
BAL / Basic Assembly Language
BAM / Bell Atlantic Mobile
BAM / Bi-directional Associative Memory
BAM / Brock Activity Manager
BAN / Boundary Access Nodes
BAP / Brain Aid Prolog
BAPC / Business Application Performance Corporation
BAPI / Bridge Application Program Interface
BARRNET / Bay Area Regional Research NETwork
BART / Bootable Antivirus & Recovery Tools
BASH / Bourne-Again SHell
BASIC / Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
B2B / Business To Business
B2C / Business To Customer
B2E / Business To Employee
BB / BaseBand
BBC / Boston Business Computing
BBC / British Broadcasting Corporation
BBS / BIOS Boot Specification
BBS / Bulletin Board System
BBS / Bulletin Board Service
BBT / Basic Block Testing
BBT / Bit Block Transfer
BBWA / Backup By Walking Around
BC / Binary Coded
BC / Blind Copy
BC / Borland C
BC / Business Calculator
Bc / Burst committed
BCC / Blind Carbon Copy
BCC / Block Check Character
BCD / BarCelona Division
BCD / Binary Coded Decimal
BCD / Bipolar CMOS/DMOS
BCDIC / Binary Coded Decimal Interchange
BCE / Boston Computer Exchange
BCL / Batch Command Language
BCP / Bekins Communication Package
BCPL / Basic Combined Programming Language
BCS / Binary Compatibility Standard
BCS / Boston Computer Society
BCS / British Computer Society
BCW / Borland C for Windows
Bd / Baud
BDC / Borland Dbase Compiler
BDV / Boot Volume Descriptor
BDE / Borland Database Engine
BDF / Business Design Facility
BDL / Block Diagram compiLer
BDL / Borland Dbase Linker
BDLC / Burroughs Data Link Control
BDM / Big Dumb Mistake
BDM / Boss Document Manager
BDOS / Basic Disk Operating System
BE / Batch Enhancer
BEA / Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Application
BECN / Backward Explicit Congestion Notification
BEDO / Burst Extended Data Output
BeOS / Be Operating System
BFTP / Background File Transfer Program
BGA / Ball-Grid Array
BGP / Border Gateway Protocol
BINAC / BINary Automatic Computer
BIOS / Basic Input Output System
BIT / Binary Digit
BIU / Bus Interface Unit
BJ / Bubble Jet
BJT / Bipolar Junction Transistor
BLOB / Binary Large OBjects
BME / Beam Molecular Epitaxy
BOA / Basic Object Adapter
BPB / BIOS Parameter Block
BPI / Bytes Per Inch
BPM / Beats Per Minute
BPP / Bits Per Pixel
BPS / Bits Per Second
BQR / Best Quality Reception
BR-SAT-MON / BackRoom SATnet MONitoring
BRAM / Broadcast Recognizing Access Method
BRI / Basic Rate Interface
BS / BackSpace
BSA / Business Software Alliance
BSC / Base Station Controller
BSD / Berkeley Software Distribution
BSDI / Berkeley Software Design Inc.
BSDL / Boundary-Scan Description Language
BSP / Binary Search Partition
BTB / Branch Target Buffer
BTS / Base Transceiver Station
BYTE / BinarY digiT Eight

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Name / Description
CA/CG / Computer Animation/Computer Graphics
CAD / Computer Aided Design
CAE / Computer Aided Engineering
CAFM / Computer Aided Facility Management
CAM / Common Access Method
CAM / Computer Aided Manufacturing
CAMEL / Customized Application for Mobile Enhanced Logic
CAN / CANcel
CAN / Controller Area Network
CAR / Collect And Return
CarIN / Car Information and Navigation
CAS / Column Address Strobe
CASE / Computer Aided Software Engineering
CAST / C. Adams, S. Tavares
CAV / Constant Angular Velocity
CBIOS / Compatibility Basic Input Output System
CBS / Business Critical Services
CCC / Chaos Computer Club
CCD / Charge Coupled Device
CCSDS / Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
CCE / Concurrent Command Engine
CCS / Common Communications Support
CD / Compact Disc
CD-DA / Compact Disc-Digital Audio
CD-E / Compact Disc-Erasable
CD-I / Compact Disc-Interactive
CD-MRW / Compact Disc-Mount Rainier reWritable
CD-R / Compact Disc-Recordable
CD-RAM / Compact Disc-Random Access Memory
CD-ROM / Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory
CD-RW / Compact Disc-reWritable
CD-WO / Compact Disc-Write Once
CD-XA / Compact Disc-Extanded Architecture
CDC / CertificateDistributionCenter
CDMA / Code-Division Multiple Access
CDSA / Common Data Security Architecture
CE / Compute Elements
CEDA / Central European Data Agency
CENTO / Central Treaty Organization
CEO / Chief Executive Officer
CESNET / Czech Educational and Scientific NETwork
CETI / Communication With Extraterrestrial Intelligence
CF / Compact Flash
CFML / ColdFusion Markup Language
CGA / Color Graphics Adapter
CGI / Common Gateway Interface
CHAP / Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
CHAP / Cryptographic Handshake Authentication Protocol
CHTML / Compact Hyper Text Markup Language
CIA / Central Intelligence Agency
CIC / Counter Intelligence Corps
CIDR / Classes InterDomain Routing
CIE / International Commission on Illumination
CIF / Cells In Frames
CIM / Compaq Insight Manager
CIPA / Camera & Imaging Products Association
CIRC / Cross Interleave Reed Solomon product Code
CISC / Complex Instruction Set Computer
CLIP / Component Library Integration Package
CLUT / Color Look-Up Table
CLV / Constant Linear Velocity
CM / Configuration Manager
CM / Connection Machine
CMOS / Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CMRR / Common Mode Rejection Ratio
CMSS / Creative Multi-Speaker Surround
CMY / Cyan/Magenta/Yellow
CMYK / Cyan/Magenta/Yellow/blacK
CNR / Communication Network Riser
COAST / Cache On A STick
COBOL / COmmon Business Language
CORBA / Common Object Request Broker Architecture
COCOM / Coordinating Committee
COCOT / Customer Owned Customer Operated Telephone
COM / Component Object Model
COM / Computer Output on Microfilm
CONET / Czech Open NETwork
COSPAR / Committee Of SpAce Research
CPHB / Computer Protocol Heart Beat
CPI / Character Per Inch
CPI / Common Programming Interface
CPLIP / Compressed Parallel Line Internet Protocol
CPNX / Computer Protocol Network eXecutive
CPS / Character Per Seconde
CPU / Central Processor Unit
CP/M / Control Program for Microcomputers
CPM / Critical Path Method
CR / Carriage Return
CRC / Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRM / Customer Relationship Management
CRT / Cathode Ray Tube
CS / Cable Select
CS / Clear to Send
CS / Crystal Semiconductor
CSA / Chief Software Architect
CSD / Circuit Switched Data
CSDI / Compressed Serial Digital Interface
CSDN / Circuit Switched Data Network
CSG / Constructive Solid Geometry
CSH / C SHell
CSI / Computer Security Institute
CSM / Central Switch Matrix
CSMA / Carrier Sense Multiple Access
CSMA/CD / Carrier Sense Media Access with Collision Detection
CSP / Certified Solution Provider
CSTM / Cinema SubTitles Machine
CSS / Cascading Style Sheets
CSS / Content Scrambling System
CTCP / Client-to-Client-Protocol
CTI / Computer Telephony Integration
CTS / Clear To Send
CTX / Chuntex Electronic Corporation
CUA / Common User Access
CVD / Chemical Vapor Deposition
CVE / Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
CVS / Concurrent Versions System
CWDM / Course Wavelength Division Multiplex

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Name / Descrition
D-RDRAM / Direct Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory
D3D / Direct 3D
DAB / Digital Audio Broadcasting
DAC / Digital/Analog Converter
DAME / Dark Avenger Mutation Engine
DAO / Disk At Once
DASD / Direct Access Storage Device
DAT / Digital Audio Tape
DBB / Dynamic Bass Boost
DBF / DataBase File
DBI / Dynamic Bus Inversion
DBR / DOS Boot Record
DC / Direct Current
DC / Dual Channel
DCC / Digital Compact Cassette
DCC / Digital Content Creation
DCC / Direct-Client-to-Client
DCC / Display Communication Channel
DCD / Data Carrier Detect
DCE / Data Circuit-terminating Equipment
DCE / Data Communications Equipment
DCF / Design rule for Camera Filesystem
DCI / Direct Control Interface
DCI / Display Control Interface
DCMA / Digital Millennium Copyright Act
DCOM / Distributed Component Object Model
DCR / Digital Colour Restoration
DCT / Discrete Cosine Transform
DD / Double Density
DDA / Digital Differential Analyzer
DDB / Device Dependent Bitmap
DDC / Display Data Channel
DDC/CI / Display Data Channel Command Interface
DDE / Dynamic Data Exchange
DDK / Device Driver Kit
DDK / Driver Development Kit
DDMA / Distributed Direct Memory Access
DDML / Document Definition Markup Language
DDNS / Dual Dynamic Noise Suppresser
DDNS / Dynamic Domain Name Service
DDO / Dynamic Drive Overlay
DDP / Datagram Delivery Protocol
DDR / Double Data Rate
DDS / Digital Data Storage
DECTRA / DECca Track and RAnge
DELRAC / DEccaLongRange Area Coverage
DEC / Digital Equipment Corporation
DECT / Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications
DES / Data Encryption Standard
DFS / Distributed File System
DFC / Dynamic Feedback Circuit
DFC / Dynamic Focus Circuit
DFP / Digital Flat Panel
DFT / Discrete Fourier Transformation
DGP / Dissimilar Gateway Protocol
DGPS / Differential Global Positioning System
DHCP / Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DIAC / DIode Alternate Current switch
DIB / Device Independent Bitmap
DIB / Dual Independent Bus
DIGIC / DIGital Imaging Core
DIL / Dual In-line Package
DIME / DIrect Memory Execute
DIMM / Dual In-Line Memory Module
DIP / Dual In-line Package
DIRECT X / DIRECT eXtension
DIX / DEC-Intel-Xerox
DJGPP / DJ delorie GNU C++ compiler
DLL / Dynamic Link Library
DLP / Digital Light Processing
DSL / Data Link Service
DLS / Digital Loop Service
DLS / Distributed Link Services
DLS / Directory Location Service
DLS / DownLoadable Sounds
DLS / Dynamic Load Sharing
DLT / Digital Linear Tape
DMA / Direct Memory Access
DMCA / Digital Millennium Copyright Act
DMD / Digital Micromirror Device
DME / Distance-Measuring Equipment
DMI / Desktop Management Interface
DMM / Diamond MultiMedia
DMOS / Diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor
DMS / Document Management System
DMT / Discrete Monitor Timings
DMTF / Desktop Management Task Force
DMU / Digital Mock-Up
DN / DOS Navigator
DNA / Distributed interNet Architecture
DNR / Digital Noise Reduction
DNS / Domain Name Server
DOS / Disk Operating System
DOW / Direct OverWrite
DPCM / Differential Pulse Code Modulation
DPI / Dots Per Inch
DPMI / Dos Protected Mode Interface
DPMS / Display Power Management System
DPMS / Dos Protected Mode Services
DPOF / Digital Print Order Format
DPS / Digital Processing Systems
DRAM / Dynamic Random Access Memory
DRAW / Direct Read After Write
DS / Double Side
DSAM / Data Set Access Method
DSC / Digital Sound Control
DSD / Document Structure Description
DSM / Directory Service Migration
DSN / Deep Space Network
DSP / Digital Signal Processor
DSP / Display Systems Protocol
DSR / Data Set Ready
DSS / Digital Signature Standard
DSSSL / Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
DSSSL / Document Style and Semantics Specification Language
DT4DTD / Data Types For DTD
DTA / Dave's Targa Animator
DTA / Disk Transfer Area
DTA / Dynamic Traffic Assignment
DTC / Distributed Transaction Coordinator
DTCP / Digital Transmission Content Protection
DTE / Data Terminal Equipment
DtFT / Discrete-time Fourier Transformation
DTL / Digital Tape Library
DTL / Diode-Transistor Logic
DTP / DeskTop Publishing
DTR / Data Terminal Ready
DTS / Digital Theatre System
DUN / Dial-Up Networking
DV / Digital Video
DVB-C / Digital Video Broadcasting-Cable
DVB-TS / Digital Video Broadcasting-Satellite
DVB-T / Digital Video Broadcasting-Terrestrial
DVI / Digital Video Interactive
DVD / Digital Video (Versatile) Disc
DWANGO / Dial-up Wide Area Network Gaming Organization
DXF / autocad Drawing eXchange Format
DXR / Dynamic eXtension Resolution

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Name / Description
E-DDC / Enhanced Extended Display Data Channel
E-EDID / Enhanced Extended Display Identification Data standard
E3 / Electronic Entertainment Expo
EAGLE / Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor
EAN / European Article Numbering
EAROM / Electrically Alternate Programmable Read Only Memory
EAX / Environmental Audio eXtension
EBCDIC / Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
ECC / Error Checking and Correction
ECC / Error Correction Code
ECD / Enhanced Color Display
ECP / Enhanced CapabilityPort
ECMA / European Computer Manufacturers Association
ECSS / European Communication Satellite System
ECU / European Currency Unit
ECU / EISA Configuration Utility
ED / Extra Density
EDA / Electronic Design Automation
EDC / Error Detection Code
EDGE / Enhanced Data rate for Global Evolution
EDI / Electronic Data Interchange
EDID / Extended Display Identification Data
EDIP / Electronic Document Image Processing
EDORAM / Extended Data Output Random Access Memory
EDP / Electronic Data Processing
EDPT / Enhanced Drive Parameter Table
EEG / ElektroEncefaloGraf
EEMS / Enhanced Expanded Memory Specification
EEPROM / Electrically Erasable and Programmable Read Only Memory
EER / Equal Error Rate
EFM / Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation
EGA / Enhanced Graphics Adapter
EGP / Exterior Gateway Protocol
EIA / Electronic Industry Association
EIDE / Enhanced Integrated Device Electronic
EIR / Equipment Identity Register
EIS / Executive Information Systems
EISA / European Imaging and Sound Association
EISA / Extended Industry Standard Architecture
EJB / Enterprise JavaBean
ELD / Electronic License Distribution
ELF / Executable and Linking Format
ELF / Extra Low Frequency
ELSI / Extreme Large Scale Integration
EMA / Enterprise Memory Architecture
EMI / ElectroMagnetic Interference
EMINENT / Expert Meeting of International and National Educational NeTworks
EMM / Expanded Memory Manager
EMP / EmergencyManagementPort
EMR / Electro Mechanical Relay
EMS / Expanded Memory Specification
ENIAC / Electronic Numerator, Integrator, Analyzer and Calculator
EOF / End Of File
EON / Enhanced Other Network
EOS / Equation Operating System
EOT / End Of Transmission
EP / Enterprise Portal
EPA / Environmental Protection Agency
EPIC / Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing
EPICenter / Electronic Photography and ImagingCenter
EPP / Enhanced ParallelPort
EPROM / Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EPS / Encapsulated PostScript
ERMES / Enhanced Radio MEssage System
ERP / Enterprise Resource Planning
ESA / Electronic Shock Absorption
ESC / ESCape
ESD / Electronic Software Distribution
ESD / ElectroStatic Discharge
ESDI / Enhanced Small Device Interface
ESDRAM / Enhanced Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
ESMA / Extended Server Memory Architecture
ESP / Encapsulated Security Payload
ETHERIP / ETHERnet-within-IP encapsulation
ETSI / European Technical Standards Institute
EU / Execution Unit
EVC / Enhanced Video Connector
EVD / Enhanced Versatile Disc

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Name / Description
FAQ / Frequently Asked Questions
FAR / False Acceptance Rate
FAT / File Allocation Table
FATSERV / FATmen SERVer
FBI / Federal Bureau of Investigation
FC-AL / Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop
FCB / File Control Block
FCC / Federal Communications Commission
FCP / Firewall Control Protocol
FCPGA / Flip Chip Pin Grid Array
FCS / Fibre Channel Standard
FDC / FloppyDisk Controller
FDD / FloppyDisk Drive
FDDI / Fibre Distributed Data Interface
FE/TE / Focus Error/Tracking Error
FED / Field Emission Display
FET / Field Effected transistor
FF / Form Feed
FFD / Free Form Deformation
FFP / Free Form Prism
FFT / Fast Fourier Transformation
FHSS / Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum
FIFO / First In-First Out
FIPS / First nondestructive Interactive Partition Splitting
FIR / Fast serial InfraRed
FIR / Finite Impulse Response
FIRE / Flexible Routing Engine
Flash EPROM / Flash Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
FM / Frequency Modulation
FMD / Fluorescent Multilayer Disc
FNC / Federal Network Council
ForTran / Formula Translator
FPDI / Flat Panel Display Interface
FPGA / Field Programmable Gate Array
FPIC / Field Programmable Integrated Circuits
FPM / Fast Page Mode
FPMPMI / Flat Panel Monitor Physical Mounting Standard
FPS / Frames Per Second
FPROT / File PROTect
FPU / Floating-Point Unit
FQDN / Fully Qualified Domain Name
FRR / False Rejection Rate
FSAA / Full Scene Anti-Aliasing
FSB / Front Side Bus
FSF / Free Software Foundation
FSK / Frequency Shift Keying
FTD / Fluorescent Tube Display
FTP / File Transfer Protocol
FTS / Favorite Track Selection
FWA / Fixed Wireless Access
FWH / FirmWare Hub

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