ALGOL                        ALGOrithmic Language

ALU                           Arithmetic and Logic Unit

ANSI                         American National Standards Institute

API                           Applications Programming Interface

ASCII                        American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ATM                         Asynchronous Transfer Mode

ATM                          Automatic Teller Machine

 

BASIC                       Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BBS                          Bulletin Board System

BCD                           Binary Coded Decimal

BOS                           Basic Input/Output System

BMP                           BitMaP

CAA                           Computer Aided Architecture

CAD                           Computer Aided Design

CADD                        Computer Aided Design and Drafting

CAM                          Computer Aided Manufacturing / Content Adressable Memory

CD                              Compact Disk

CDROM                      Compact Disk Read Only Memory

CGA                           Colour Graphics Adapter

CGI                            Common Gateway Interface

CGI                            Computer Graphics Interface

CGM                         Computer Graphics Metafile

CISC                          Complex (Complete) Instruction Set Computer

CMOS                       Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

COBOL                       COmmon Business Oriented Language

Codec                         Coder/Decoder

CORBA                      Common Object Request Broker Architecture

CPU                          Central Processing Unit

CRT                          Cathode Ray Tube

DBMS                        DataBase Management System

DDE                          Dynamic Data Exchange

DLL                           Dynamic Link Library

DMA                          Direct Memory Access

DNS                          Domain Name Server

DOS                          Disk Operating System

DPI                           Dots Per Inch

DPL                          Descriptor Privilege Level

DRAM                        Dynamic Random Access Memory 

EBCD                       Extended Binary Coded Decimal

EBCDIC                     Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

EDI                           Electronic Data Interchange

EPROM                     Eraseable Programable Read Only Memory

FIFO                         First In, First Out

FORTRAN                 FORmula TRANslator

FTP                          File Transfer Protocol

GB                           GigaByte

GIF                           Graphics Interchange Format

GUI                           Graphical User Interface

HTML                       Hypertext Markup Language

HTTP                         Hypertext Transfer Protocol

Hz                              Hertz

I/O                             Input/Output

IC                              Integrated Circuit

IRQ                            Interrupt ReQuest

JPEG                       Joint Photographic Experts Group

K                               Kilobyte

KB                              Kilo Byte

kHz                          KiloHertz

LAN                           Local Area Network

LCD                           Liquid Crystal Display

LCS                          Lotus Communication Server

LIFO                          Last In, First Out

LILO                          Last In, Last Out

LISP                          List Programming

LSD                           Least Significant Digit

LSI                             Large Scale Integration -> VLSI

LU                              Logical Unit

MAN                          Metropolitan Area Network

MAP                          Manufacturing Automation Protocol

MAPI                          Messaging Applications Programming Interface

MB                              MegaByte

MBPS                         MegaBits Per Second

MICR                         Magnetic Ink Character Reader

MIDI                           Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MIME                         Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

MIPS                         Millions of Instructions Per Second

MISC                          Minimum Instruction Set Computer -> CISC, RISC

MODEM                      MOdulator/DEModulator

MPEG                       Motion Picture Experts Group

MS-DOS                    Microsoft Disk Operating System

MSD                          Most Significant Digit 

OCR                          Optical Character Recognition

OOPS                       Object Oriented Programming System

 OS                         Operating System

OS/2                       Operating System/2

PC                          Personal Computer

PC                          Personal Computing

POP                        Post Office Protocol

PROM                     Programmable Read Only Memory

RAM                       Random Access Memory

RDBMS                   Relational DataBase Management System

RISC                        Reduced Instruction Set Computer

ROM                       Read Only Memory

RPM                       Revolutions Per Minute

RTF                        Rich Text Format

SDRAM                   Synchronous DRAM

SQL                        Structured Query Language

SRAM                     Static Random Access Memory

TCP/IP                    Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TIFF                        Tagged Image File Format

TXT                         Text

UPS                         Uninterruptible Power Supply

URL                         Uniform Resource Locator

VDU                         Visual Display Unit

VGA                         Video Graphics Array

VLSI                        Very Large Scale Integration

VRAM                     Video RAM

WWW                      World Wide Web

WAN                        Wide Area Network

WORM                    Write Once, Read Many times

WYSIWYG               What You See Is What You Get