These are the most common acronyms.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
ADF
= Automatic Document Feeder
AES
= Application Enviroment Specification
AF
= Auxiliary carry Flag
ALGOL
= ALGOrithmic Language
ALU
= Arithmetic-Logic Unit
AR
= Aspect Ratio
APA
= All Points Addressable
API
= Application Program Interface
APIC
= Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
ASCII
= American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASIC
= Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
AT
= Advanced Technology
ATA
= Advanced Technology Attachment
ATM
= Asyncronous Transfer Mode
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B -
BAL
= Basic Assembly Language
BASIC
= Beginers All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BCD
= Binary Coded Decimal
BCDIC
= Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
BCH
= Binary Coded Hexadecimal
BCO
= Binary Coded Octal
BECN
= Backward Explicit Congestion Notification
BIT
= BInary digiT
BIOS
= Basic Input-Output System
BLO
= Binary Large Objects
BLOB
= Binary Large OBject
BOCA
= Borland Object Component Arcitecture
BOOM
= Binocular Omni-Oriented Monitor
BPIO
= Block Processor Input/Output
BRI
= Basic Rate Interface
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C -
CAD
= Computer Aided Design
CAE
= Computer Aided Education
CAM
= Computer Aided Manufacture
CAV
= Constant Angular Velocity
CDE
= Cooperative Development Enviroment
CGA
= Color Graphics Adapter
CGM
= Computer Generated Movies
CIM
= Computer Integrated Manufacturing
CISC
= Complex Instruction Set Cumputer
CLI
= Call Level Interface
CLV
= Constant Linear Velocity
CMOS
= Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
COBOL
= COmmon Business Oriented Language
COM
= COMunication
COSE
= Common Open Software Enviroment
CP
= Computing Platform
CPI
= Characters Per Inch
CPS
= Characters Per Second
CPU
= Central Processing Unit
CRC
= Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRISP
= Complex Reduced Instruction Set Processor
CRT
= Cathode Ray Tube
CU
= Control Unit
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DAL
= Data Access Language
DBASE
= DataBASE
DBMS
= Data Base Management System
DD
= Double Density
DDE
= Dynamic Data Exchange
DDS
= Digital Data Storage
DE
= Discard Eligibility
DEC
= DECimal
DI
= Destination Intex
DIP
= Dual In-line Package
DLCI
= Data Link Connection Identifier
DMA
= Direct Memory Access
DML
= Data Manipulation Language
DOS
= Disk Operating System
DPI
= Dots Per Inch
DPMI
= Disk operating system Protected Mode Interface
DPT
= Drive Parameter Table
DRAM
= Dynamic Random Access Memory
DRDA
= Distributed Relational Database Architecture
DRQ
= Drive Interrupt ReQuest
DTP
= DeskTop Publishing
DX
= Double eXternal technology
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E -
EBCDIC
= Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
ECA
= Excangable Card Architecture
ECM
- Error Correction Mode
ED
= Extra high Density
EDI
= Electronic Data Interchange
EDIF
= Electronic Data Interchange Format
EDPT
= Enhanced Drive Parameter Table
EEPROM
= Electrically Erasable Programable Read Only Memory
EGA
= Enhanced Graphics Adapter
EISA
= Extended Industry Standard Architecture
EMM=
=Expanded Memory Manager
EMS
= Expanded Memory Specification
EOF
= End Of File
EPROM
= Erasable Programable Read Only Memory
ER
= Entity Relationship
ESDI
= Enhanced Small Device Interface
ESQL
= Embedded Structure Query Language
ETANN
= Electronically Trainable Analog Neural Network
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F -
FAT
= File Allocation Table
FCB
= File Control Block
FECN
= Forward Explicit Congestion Notification
FDD
= Floppy Disk Drive
FF
= Form Feed
FFS
= Flexible Fertigungs System
FIFO
= First In First Out
FM
= Frequency Modulation encoding
FORTRAN
= FORmula TRANslation
FPU
= Floating Point Unit
FSTN
= Fast Super Twist Nematic
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G -
GB
= Giga-Byte
GDI
= Graphic Device Interface
GQBE
= Graphical Query By Example
GUI
= Graphical User Interface
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H -
HEX
= HEXadecimal
HD
= High Density
HDD
= Hard Disk Drive
HMA
= High Memory Area
HMSI
= Head Mounted Sensory Interface
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I -
IC
= Integrated Circuit
IDE
= Integrated Drive Electronics
IDTV
= Improved Definition TeleVision
IGES
= Initial Graphics Exchange Specification
INTERNET
= INTERnational NETwork
IP
= Instruction Pointer
IPC
= Integrated Processor Controller
IRC
= Internet Relay Chat
IRQ
= Interrupt ReQuest
ISA
= Industry Standard Architecture
ISDN
= Integrated Services Digital Network
IU
= Integer Unit
I/O
= Input/Output
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J -
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K -
KB
= Kilo-Byte
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L -
LAN
= Local Area Network
LBA
= Logical Block Address
LCD
= Liquid Crystal Display
LF
= Line Feed
LIFO
= Last In First Out
LPI
= Lines Per Inch
LPT
= Line PrinTer
LSB
= Least Significant Bit
LSD
= Least Significant Digit
LSI
= Large Scale Integration
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M -
MAN
= Metropolitan Area Network
MB
= Mega-Byte
MCA
= Micro Channel Architecture
MCGA
= Multi-Color Graphics Array
MCI
= Media Control Interface
MDA
= Monochrome Display Adapter
MDI
= Multiple Document Interface
MET
= Memory Enhancement Technology
MFLOPS
= Milions Floating Points
MFM
= Modified Frequency Modulation encoding
MGA
= Monochrome Graphic Adapter
MIDI
= Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIG
= Metal In Gap
MIMD
= Multiple Introduction stream, Multiple Data stream
MIO
= Modular Input/Output
MIPS
= Milions Instructions Per Seconds
MIS
= Management Information System
MPU
= Main Processing Unit
MSB
= Most Significant Bit
MSD
= Most Significant Digit
MSI
= Medium Scale Integration
MTDF
= Minimum Time Between Failure
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N -
NC
= Numerial Control
NCD
= Network Copy Detection
NDIS
= Network Device Independent Standard
NDS
= Netware Directory Services
NLM
= Network Loadable Modules
NMI
= Non-Maskable Interrupt
NNS
= Netware Naming Services
NPU
= Numeric Proccessing Unit
NVRAM
= Non-Volative Random Access Memory
NVROM
= Non-Volative Read Only Memory
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O -
OCT
= OCTal
ODAPI
= Open Data base Application Programming Interface
ODBC
= Open DataBase Connectivity
OF
= Overflow Flag
OLE
= Object Linking and Embedding
OLTP
= Oo-Line Transaction Processing
OOD
= Object Oriented Design
OOP
= Object Oriented Programming
OP-CODE
= OPerational-CODE
ORCAD
= ORganized Computer Aided Design
OSI
= Open System Interconnection
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PAL
= Programmable Array Logic
PAR
= Pattern Aided Recognition
PCI
= Peripheral Computer Interconnect
PDS
= Professional Development System
PF
= Parity Flag
PGA
= Pin Grid Array
PIA
= Peripheral-Interface Adapter
PIO
= Processor Input-Output
PIPO
= Parallel Input Parallel Output
PISO
= Parallel Input Serial Output
POSIX
= Portable Operating System Interface X
POST
= Power-On Self Test
PPM
= Pages Per Minute
PRN
= PRiNter
PROM
= Programmable Read Only Memory
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QBE
= Query By Example
QBF
= Query By Form
QBM
= Query By Model
QD
= Quad Density
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R -
RAD
= Rapid Application Development
RAM
= Random Access Memory
RAS
= Remote Access Service
RBI
= Ripple Blanking Input
RBO
= Ripple Blanking Output
RCT
= Resolution EnhancemenT
RE
= Resolution Enhancement Technology
RHD
= Removable Hard Disk
RI
= Referencial Integrity
RISC
= Reduced Instruction Set Computer
RIT
= Resolution Improvement Technology
RLL
= Rum-Length Limited
ROF
= Read Only File
ROM
= Read Only Memory
RQBE
= Relational Query By Example
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SCSI
= Small Computer System Interface
SCT
= SCreenText
SDH
= Select Drive Head
SDK
= Software Development Kit
SI
= Sourse Intex
SIMD
= Single Introduction stream, Multiple Data stream
SIMM
= Single In-line package Memory Module
SIPO
= Serial Input Parallel Output
SISD
= Single Introduction stream, Single Data stream
SISO
= Serial Input Serial Output
SMD
= Surface Mounted Device
SOM
= System Object Model
SQL
= Structured Query Language
SRAM
= Static Random Access Memory
SS
= Stack Segment register
SSI
= Small Scale Integration
SVGA
= Super Video Graphics Array
SVID
= System V Interface Definition
SX
= Single eXternal technology
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T -
TB
= Tera-Byte
TF
= Trap Flag
TFT
= Thin Film Transistor
TP
= Twisted-Pair
TPI
= Tracks Per Inch
TSR
= Terminate and Stay Resident
TTL
= Transistor-Transistor Logic
TTY
= TeleTYpe
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U -
UART
= Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter
UMA
= Upper Memory Area
UMB
= Upper Memory Blocks
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VDE
= Visual Development Enviroment
VDU
= Visual Display Unit
VF
= Vacuum Fluorescent
VGA
= Video Graphics Array
VIM
= Vision Immersion Module
VIS
= Video Information System
VLB
= Vesa Local Bus
VLSI
= Very Large Scale Integration
VMC
= Vesa Media Channel
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W -
WAIS
= Wide Area Information Service
WAN
= Wide Area Network
WORM
= Write One Read More
WWW
= Word Wide Web
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X -
XGA
= eXtended Graphics Array
XMS
= eXtended Memory Specification
XT
= eXternal Technology
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Z -
ZF
= Zero Flag
ZIF = Zero-Insertion Forse