By : Darlington ‘the’ Kabamba!

CS 110 IMPORTANT ABBREVIATIONS

Random Access Memory (RAM)
Read Only Memory (ROM)
Kilobyte (KB)
Megabyte (MB)
Gigabyte (GB)
Terabyte (TB)
Dynamic RAM (DRAM)
Static RAM (SRAM)
Printed Circuit Board (PCB)
Single In-line Memory Module (SIMM)
Dual In-line Memory Module (DIMM).
Basic Input Output System (BIOS)
Power On Self Test (POST)
Programmable ROM (PROM)
Erasable Programmable ROM (EPROM)
Blu-ray Disc (BD)
Inter-Record Gap (IRG)
File Allocation Table (FAT)
Compact Disk (CD)
Compact Disk- Read Only Memory (CD-ROM).
Digital Video Disk-Read Only Memory (DVD-ROM)
Compact Disk-Recordable (CD-R)
Write Once-Read Many (WORM)
Compact Disk-Rewritable (CD-RW)
Digital Video Disk-Recordable (DVD-R)

UNIVersal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC)

Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator (ENIAC)
Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (EDVAC)
Integrated Circuit (IC)
Large Scale Integration (LSI)
Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI)
Super Large Scale Integrated (SLSI)
Personal Computer (PC)
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Central Processing Unit (CPU)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Expert System (ES)
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
FLoating point Operations Per Second (FLOPS)
Center for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC)
Input/Output (I/O)
Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)
Control Unit (CU)
Accumulator (ACC)
Instruction Register (IR)
Program Counter (PC)
Memory Address Register (MAR)
Memory Buffer Register (MBR)
Data Register (DR)
Instruction Register (IR)
Million Instructions Per Second (MIPS)
Billion Instructions Per Second (BIPS)
Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA)
Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI)
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Universal Serial Bus (USB)
MegaHertz (MHz)
GigaHertz (GHz)
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS)
Industry Standard Architecture (ISA)
Peripheral Component Interconnection (PCI)
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA)
Light Emitting Diode (LED)
Automated Teller Machine (ATM)
Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR)
Optical Mark Recognition (OMR)
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
dots per inch (dpi)
characters per second (cps)
Computer Aided Design (CAD)
Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM)
Computer Output on Microfilm (COM)
Cathode Ray Tube (CRT)
Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)
Visual Display Terminal (VDT)
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDI C)
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCI I )
Operating System (OS)
Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS- DOS)
First Come First Served (FCFS)
Shortest Job First (SJF)
Round Robin (RR)
Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On-Line (Spool)
Command Line Interface (CLI)
K Desktop Environment (KDE)
electronic-mail (e-mail)
Shielded Twisted Pair (STP)
Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP)
Radio Frequency (RF)
Local Area Network (LAN)
Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN)
Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)
Network Interface Card (NIC)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
World Wide Web (WWW)
Internet Society (ISOC)
Internet Architecture Board (IAB)
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG)
Internet Research Task Force (IRTF)
Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA)
Internet Network Information Center (InterNIC)
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN),
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
International Standards Organisation (ISO)
Internet Service Provider (ISP)
Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)
Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs)
Short Message Service (SMS)
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Post Office Protocol (POP)
Internet Mail Access Protocol (IMAP)
Domain Name Service (DNS)
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
Vital Information Resources Under Seize (Virus)
Secret Key Cryptography (SKC)
Public Key Cryptography (PKC)
Data Encryption Standard (DES)
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA)
Message Digest (MD)
Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA)
Certification Authorities (CA)
Poly Vinyl Chloride (PVC)
Red, Green, and Blue (RGB)
Hue, Saturation, and Brightness (HSB)
Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)
Graphical Interchange Format (GIF)
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC)
Digital-to Analog Conversion (DAC)
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
Resource Interleave File Format (RIFF)
Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG)
Committee for Telephone and Telegraph (CCITT)
compression/decompression (codec)
Head-mounted display (HMD)
Information System (IS)
Computer-Based Information System (CBIS)
Transaction Processing System (TPS)
Office Automation System (OAS)
Management Information System (MIS)
Decision Support System (DSS)
Executive Information System (EIS)
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Electronic commerce (E-commerce)
Companies and Companies (B2B)
Companies and Consumers (B2C)
Consumers and Consumers (C2C)
DataBase Management System (DBMS)
database administrator (DBA)
Entity-Relationship model (E-R model)
One-to-one Relationship (1:1)
Many-to-many Relationship (M:M)
data definition language (DDL)
data manipulation language (DML)
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