TECHNICAL TERMS OF COMPUTERS

IMPORTANT ABBREVIATIONS OF COMPUTERS

As we know that, nowadays the technical knowledge of computers is an essential thing that should be known by everyone. I make this blog to give some important  technical terms. I hope it will beneficial for you :) :)

A

AI: Artificial Intelligence

ALGOL: Algorithmic Language

ARP: Address Resolution Protocol

ASCII: American Standard for Information Interchange

B

BINAC: Binary Automatic Computer

BCC: Blind Carbon Copy

BIOS: Basic Input Output System

BIT: Binary Digit

BSNL: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited

C

CC: Carbon copy

CAD: Computer Aided Design

CD: Compact Disc

COBOL : Commom Business Oriented Language

CRT: Cathode Ray Tube

CDR: Compact disc Recordable

CDROM: Compact Disc Read Only Memory

CDRW: Compact Disc Rewritable

CDR/W: Compact Disc Read/Write

D

DBA: Database Administrator

DBMS:  Database Management System

DNS: Domain Name System

DPI: Dots Per Inch

DRAM: Dynamic Random Access Memory

DVD: Digital Versatile Disc/ Digital Video Disc

DVDR: DVD Recordable

DVDROM: DVD Read Only Memory

DVDRW: DVD REwritable

DVR: Digital Video Recorder

DOS: Disk Operating System

E

EBCDIC: Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

E-COMMERCE: Electronic Commerce

EDP: Electronic Data Processing

EPROM:  Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

EEPROM: Electronically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

EMAIL: Electronic Mail

ENIAC: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer

EOF: End of File

EXE: Executable

F

FAX: Far Away Xerox/ Facsimile

FDC: Floppy Disk Controller

FDD: Floppy Disk Drive

FORTRAN: Formula Translation

FS: File System

FTP: File Transfer Protocol

G

Gb: Gigabit

GB:Gigabyte

GIF: Graphics Interchange Format

GSM: Global System for Mobile Communication 

H

HDD: Hard Disk Drive

HP: Hewett Packard

HTML: Hyper Text Markup Language

HTTP: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

I

IBM: International Business Machine

IM: Instant Message

IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol

ISP: Internet Service Provider

J

 
JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group

K

Kb: Kilobit

KB: Kilobyte

KHz: Kilohertz

Kbps: Kilobit Per Second

L

LCD: Liquid Crystal Display

LED: Light Emitting Diode

LPI: Lines Per Inch

LIS: Large Scale Integration

M

Mb: Megabit

MB: Megabyte

MPEG: Moving Picture Experts Group

MMS: Multimedia Message Service

MICR: Magnetic Ink Character Reader

MIPS: Million Instructuibs Per Second

N

NIC: Network Interface Card

NOS: Network Operations System

O

OMR: Optical Mark Reader

OOP: Object Oriented Programming

OSS: Open Source Software

P

PAN: Personal Area Network

PC: Personal Computer

PDA: Personal Digital Assistant

PDF: Portable Document Format

POS: Point of Sale

PNG: Portable Network Graphics

PPM: Pages Per Minute

PP: Point to Point Protocol 

PROM: Programmable Read Only Memory

PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Network

POST: Packet Internet Gopher

R

RAM: Random Access Memory

RDBMS: Relational Data Base Manager

RIP: Routing Information Protocol

RTF: Rich Text Format

S

SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SQL: Structured Query Language

SRAM: Synchronous Random Access Memory

SNMP: Simple Network Management Program

T

TCP: Transmission Control Protocol

TB: Tera Bytes

U

UPS: Uninterrupted Power Supply

URL: Uniform Resource Locator

URI: Uniform Resource Identifier

USB: Uniform Serial Bus

ULSI: Ultra Large Scale Integration

UNIVAC: Universal Automatic Computer

V

VAR: Variable

VGA: Video Graphics Array

VSNL: Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited

VDU: Visual Display Unit

W

Wi-Fi: Wireless Fidelity

WLAN: Wireless Local Area Network

WPA: Wi-Fi Protected Access

WWW: World Wide Web

WORA: Write Once Rune Anywhere

X

XHTML: Extensible Hyper Text Markup Language

XML: Extensible Markup Language

Z

ZB: Zeta Byte

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