COMPUTER TERMINOLOGY

A
ARP: Address Resolution Protocol
ARQ: Automatic Repeat Request
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
BBS: Bulletin Board Software
BSD: Berkeley Software Distribution

C
CAS - Column Address Signal
CD - Compact Disk
CDR - Compact Disk Recorder
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)
CGI: Comman Gateway Interface

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
DES: Data Encryption Standard
DNS: Domain Name Service

E
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

F
FC-PGA - Flip Chip Pin Grid Array
FDC - Floppy Disk Controller
FAQ: Frequently asked questions
FTP: File Transfer Protocol (now often seen in lower case as ftp)
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
GMT: Greenwich Mean Time
GNU: GNU is Not Unix (recursive)
GUI: Graphical Users Interface


H
HDD - Hard Disk Drive
HIS - Hightech Information System Limited
HSF - Heatsink-Fan
HTML: HyperText Markup Language
HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protocol

I
IRC: Internet Relay Chat
ISP: Internet Service Provider
IO: Input Output As in file IO.
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 Are Network
LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
LDT - Lightning Data Transport
LED - Light Emitting Diode
LAN: Local Area Network
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
MUD: Multiple User Dungeon an interactive multiuser game.

N
NAS - Network Attached Storage
NAT - Network Address Translation
NEC - NEC Corporation
NIC - Network Interface Card
NTP: Network Time Protocol
NNTP: Network News Transfer Protocol
O
OC - Overclock (Over Clock)
OCZ - OCZ Technology
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
OSF: Open Software Foundation
P
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
PERL: Pratical Extraction & Reporting Language or Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
PPP: Point-to-Point Protocol
PINE: Pine Is Not Elm
PSU - Power Supply Unit

R
RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RAM - Random Access Memory
RAMDAC - Random Access Memory Digital Analog Convertor
ROM - Read Only Memory
RPM - Revolutions Per Minute
RARP: Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
RFC: Request For Comments
RTF: Rich Text Format


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
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
SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SGML: Standard Generalized Markup Language
SWISH: Simple Web Indexing System for Humans
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
TCP/IP: Transmissions Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TIA: Tle-TYpe

U
UART - Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
USB - Universal Serial Bus
UTP - Unshieled Twisted Pair
UDP: User Datagram Protocol
URL: Uniform Resource Locator

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
WAN: Wide Area Networks
WAIS: Wide Area Information Server
WWW or 3W: World Wide Web

X
XGA - Extended Graphics Array
XFX - XFX Graphics, a Division of Pine
XMS - Extended Memory Specification
XT - Extended Technology