Here Is a Some List of Important Computer Related Full Forms

Now I wanna to tell you Here is the List of Most Important Full Forms of Computer Relating Terms which arranged in categorize like internet,Hardware/peripheral,Memory Units,Keyboards related and Some famous Domain names so that you can better identify and differentiate among them . But the word "COMPUTER" is not an correct abbreviation to have a full form, It is a word generated with the English word "Compute" that means to Calculate.

Lets Start from here :-

• ALU : - Arithmetic logic unit
• ACPI : Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
• AC : Alternating Current
• AM : Amplitude Modulated
• AMD : Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
• AMD : Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
• AMI : American Megatrends Inc.
• ANSI : American National Standards Institute
• APIC: Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
• APM: Advanced Power Management
• ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange
• ASIC: Application Specific Integrated Circuit
• ASPI: Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
• AT: Advanced Technology
• ATA: AT Bus Attachment
• ATAPI: ATA Packet Interface
• ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode
• BBS: Bulletin Board System
• BCC: Block Check Character
• BSC: Binary Synchronous Communications
• BSD: Berkeley Standard Distribution
• BTU: British Thermal Units
• BCD: Binary Coded Decimal
• BIOS: Basic Input / Output System
• BNC: Bayonet Nut Connector
• BPS/bps: Bytes/bits Per Second
• CAM: Computer Aided Manufacturing
• CAD: Computer Aided Design
• CAS: Column Address Strobe
• CPU - Central Processing Unit
• CPI: Clocks Per Instruction
• CR: Carriage Return
• CUI - Composite User Interface
• CRT - Cathode Ray Tube
• CRC: Cyclical Redundancy Check
• CD: Carrier Detect & Compact Disc
• CD-R - Compact Disc-Recordable
• CD-RW - Compact Disc-ReWritable
• CD-ROM - Compact disc read-only memory
• CGA: Color Graphics Adapter
• CHS: Cylinder Head Sector
• COMPUTER - Common Oriented Machine Particularly Used for Trade Education and Research
• CMOS: Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
• CSR: Command Status Register
• CTS: Clear To Send
• DVI - Digital Visual Interface
• DVD - Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc
• DAT: Digital Audio Tape
• DC: Direct Current
• DCD: Data Carrier Detect
• DCE: Data Circuit-terminating Equipment
• DD: Double Density
• DEC: Digital Equipment Corporation
• DIP: Dual-In-line Package
• DMA: Direct Memory Access
• DMI: Desktop Management Interface
• DOS: Disk Operating System
• DPE: Data Parity Error
• DRAM: Dynamic Random Access Memory
• DS: Double Sided
• DSP: Digital Signal Processor
• DSR: Data Set Ready
• DTC: Data Terminal Controller
• DTE: Data Terminating Equipment
• DTR: Data Terminal Ready
• EBCDIC: Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
• EC: Error Check
• ECC: Error Check and Correction
• ECP: Enhanced Communication Port
• ECU: EISA Configuration Utility
• EDO: Extended Data Out RAM
• EEPROM: Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
• EGA: Enhanced Graphics Adapter
• EIA: Electronic Industries Association
• EIDE: Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics
• EISA: Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture
• EMI: Electro-Magnetic Interference
• EMF: Electro-Magnetic Force
• EMS: Expanded Memory Specification
• EOF: End Of File
• EOL: End Of Line
• EPP: Enhanced Parallel Port
• EPROM: Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
• ESCD: Extended System Configuration Data
• ESD: Electro-Static Discharge
• ESDI : Enhanced Small Devices Interface
• FTP - File Transfer Protocol
• FAT: File Allocation Table
• FCC: Federal Communications Commission
• FDD: Fixed/Floppy Disk Drive
• FDDI: Fiber Distributed Data Interface
• FDM: Frequency Division Multiplexing
• FDX: Full-Duplex Transmission
• FE: Front End
• FEP: Front End Processor
• FF: Form Feed
• FIFO: First-In First-Out
• FILO: First-In Last-Out
• FM: Frequency Modulation
• FPGA: Field Programmable Gate Array
• FPM: Fast Page Mode RAM
• FPU: Floating Point Unit
• FRC: Functional Redundancy Checking
• FRU: Field-Replaceable Unit
• FSF: Free Software Foundation
• FSK: Frequency Shifty Keying
• GUI - Graphical user interface
• GAS: Gallium Arsenide
• GFLOPS: Billions of Floating Point Operations Per Second
• HTML – Hyper Text Markup Language
• HD: High Density / Hard Disk
• HDD: Hard Disk Drive
• HDX: Half-Duplex Transmission
• HFS: Hierarchical File System
• HPFS: High Performance File System
• IBM - International Business Machines, Indian Bureau of Mines
• I/O: Input/Output
• IC: Integrated Circuit
• IDE: Integrated Device Electronics
• IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
• IMP: Interface Message Processor
• IPC: Inter Process Communication
• IPX: Inter network Packet eXchange
• IRQ: Interrupt ReQuest
• ISA: Industry Standard Architecture
• ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network
• ISO: International Standards Organization
• JFS: Journalized File System
• KNI: Katmai New Instructions
• KVA: KiloVolt-Amps
• LBA: Linear Block Array / Addressing
• LCD - Liquid crystal display
• LAN - Local area network
• LOGO - Language of Graphic-Oriented
• LED: Light Emitting Diode
• LF: Line Feed
• LIM: Lotus/Intel/Microsoft’s Expanded Memory Manager
• LRU: Least-Recently Used
• LSB/lsb: Least Significant Byte/bit
• LSI: Large Scale Integration
• LUN: Logical Unit Number
• LASER - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
• MAN - Metropolitan area network
• MIPS - Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
• MSo - Micro Soft Office, Multi system operator
• MB/Mb: Mega Bytes/bits
• MBR: Master Boot Record
• MCA: Micro Channel Architecture
• MCGA: Multi-Color Graphics Array
• MCM: Multi-Chip Module
• MDRAM: Multi-bank RAM
• MFLOPS: Millions of FLOating Point Operations per Second
• MFM: Modified Frequency Modulated
• MHz: MegaHertz
• MICR: Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
• MIDI: Musical Instrument Data Interface
• MIMD: Multiple-Instruction Multiple-Data
• MISD: Multiple-Instruction Single Data
• MMX: Multi-Media Extensions
• MNP: Microcom Network Protocol
• MODEM: MOdulator / DEModulator
• MOPS: Millions of Operations Per Second
• MOS: Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
• MP: Multi-Processor
• MPP: Massively Parallel Processor
• MPS: Multi-Processor System
• MSB/msb: Most Significant Byte/bit
• MSDOS: Microsoft’s Disk Operating System
• SI : Medium Scale Integration
• MTBF: Mean Time Between Failure
• N/C: No-Connect
• NBS: National Bureau of Standards
• NEMA: National Electrical Manufacturers Association
• NFS: Network File System
• NFU: Not-Frequently Used
• NMI: Non-Maskable Interrupt
• NMOS: Negatively doped Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
• NOP: No OPeration NRU Not-Recently Used
• NSF: National Science Foundation
• NVRAM: NonVolatile Random Access Memory
• OCR: Optical Character Recognition
• ODI: Open Data link Interface
• OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer
• OS: Operating System
• OSF: Open Software Foundation
• OSI: Open Systems Interconnect
• PAL/PLA: Programmable Array Logic / Logic Array
• PB: Push Button
• PBX: Private Branch eXtender
• PC: Personal Computer, Program Counter
• PCB: Printed Circuit Board
• PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect
• PCM: Pulse Code Modulation
• PCMCIA: Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
• PE: Processor Element
• PFF: Page Fault Frequency
• PGA: Professional Graphics Array
• PGA: Pin Grid Array
• PIC: Programmable Interrupt Controller
• PIO: Programmed Input / Output
• PIROM: Processor Information ROM
• PLCC: Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier
• PLL: Phase Locked Loop
• PM: Preventive Maintenance
• PMOS: Positively doped Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
• PnP: Plug-and-Play
• POST: Power On Self Test
• vPPP: Point-to-Point Protocol
• PQFP: Plastic Quad Flat Pack
• PROM: Programmable Read Only Memory
• PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Network
• PTE: Page Table Entry
• QAM: Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
• QFP: Quad Flat Pack
• QIC: Quarter Inch Cartridge
• RAM - Random-access memory
• RAID: Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks
• RAMDAC: Random Access Memory Digital to Analogue Converter
• RAS: Row Address Strobe
• RCA: Radio Corporation of America
• RCC: Routing Control Center
• RDRAM: Rambus DRAM
• RFC: Request For Comments
• RFI: Radio Frequency Interference
• RI: Ring Indicator
• RISC: Reduced Instruction-Set Computer
• RLL: Run Length Limited
• RMS: Root Mean Squared
• RMW: Read Modify Write
• ROM: Read Only Memory
• RPC: Remote Procedure Call
• RPM: Rotations Per Minute
• RTC: Real Time Clock
• RTS: Request To Send
• SAM: Sequential Access Memory
• SASI: Shugart Associates Standard Interface
• SCSI: Small Computer Systems Interface
• SD: Single Density
• SDLC: Synchronous Data Link Control
• SDRAM: Synchronous Dynamic RAM
• SDRAM DDR: Double Data Rate SDRAM
• SDRAM BDDR: Bi-Directional Strobed DDR SDRAM
• SE: Systems Engineer
• SEC: Single Edge Contact
• SFF: Small Form Factor
• SGRAM: Synchronous Graphics RAM
• SMS - Short Message Service
• SIMD: Single-Instruction Multiple-Data
• SIMM: Single Inline Memory Module
• SIPP: Single Inline Pinned Package
• SISD: Single-Instruction Single-Dat
• SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol
• SMD: Surface Mount Device
• SMT: Surface Mount Technology
• SNA: System Network Architecture
• SNR: Signal to Noise Ratio
• SO/SOL: Small Out Line
• SOIC: Small Outline Integrated Circuit
• SPOOL: Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On Line
• SPT: Sectors Per Track
• SPU: Single Processor Unit
• SRAM: Static Random Access Memory
• vSS: Single Sided
• STDM: Synchronous Time Division Multiplexing
• STN: Super Twisted Nematic
• STU: Streaming Tape Unit
• SVGA: Super Video Graphics Array
• TCM: Trellis Code Modulation
• TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
• TDM: Time Division Multiplexing
• TI: Texas Instruments
• TIA: Telecomm Industry Association
• TLB: Translation-Look aside Buffer
• TPI: Tracks Per Inch
• TRANSISTOR: TRANSformer resISTOR
• TSR: Terminate and Stay Resident
• TTL: Transistor-Transistor Logic
• UAE: Unrecoverable Application Error
• UART: Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
• UDP: User Datagram Protocol
• UMB: Upper Memory Block
• UNIX: A trademark used for a computer disk operating system
• UPS : Uninterruptible power supply
• USL : UNIX System Labs
• UUCP : < UNIX to UNIX Copy Program
• VIRUS : Vital Information Resources Under Seize
• VDU : Visual Display Unit
• VBE : Video BIOS Extensions
• VCR : Video Cassette RecorderVESA: Video Enhanced Standards Association
• VGA : Video Graphics Array
• VLB : VESA Local Bus
• VLIW : Very Long Instruction Word
• VLSI : Very Large Scale Integration
• VM : Virtual Memory
• VME : Versa Module Euro-card
• VRAM : Video Random Access Memory
• VRT : Voltage Reduction Technology
• VTR : Video Tape Recorder
• WAN : Wide area network
• WATS : Wide Area Telephone Service
• WD : Western Digital
• WORM : Write Once - Read-Many
• WRAM : Window Random Access Memory
• WS : Wait State
• WWW : World Wide Web
• XGA : eXtended Graphics Array
• XMS : Extended Memory Specification
• XOR : Exclusive-OR
• XT : eXtended Technology
• ZIF : Zero Insertion Force

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