List of computing and IT abbreviations

There are many abbreviations associated with the computer industry - PC, IT, CPU etc. Add them to this alphabetical listing.

• AA - anti-aliasing
• AABB - Axis aligned bounding box[?]
• AAC - Advanced Audio Coding (audio compression format defined by the MPEG-2 standard)
• ACPI - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
• ADC - Apple Display Connector (DVI variant)
• ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, variant of DSL
• AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port, sometimes used with a suffix indicating the port's bandwidth, like APG4x
• AI - artificial intelligence
• AMD - Advanced Micro Devices
• AMR - Audio Modem Riser
• API - Application Programming Interface
• ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
• AVI - Audio Video Interleaved

• BASIC - Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, acronym was added later, originally it was simply Basic
• BBS - Bulletin Board System
• BIND - Berkeley Internet Name Daemon[?]
• BIOS - Basic Input Output System
• BSA - Business Software Alliance
• BSD - Berkeley Software Distribution (Unix variant)
• BSOD - Blue Screen of Death (MS Windows specific)

• CAD - Computer Aided Design
• CD-R - CD-Recordable
• CD-RW - CD-Rewritable
• CFG - Context-free grammar - control flow graph
• CPAN - Comprehensive Perl Area Network
• CPU - Central Processing Unit
• CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
• CSS - Content Scrambling System

• DOS - Disk Operating System

• FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

• GDB - GNU debugger
• GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out
• GNU - GNU's Not Unix
• GRUB - GRand Unified Boot-loader

• HCI - Human Computer Interaction
• HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
• HTTP - Hypertext Transport Protocol

• IP - Internet Protocol
• IT - Information Technology

• KISS - Keep it simple, stupid

• LAN - Local Area Network

• MAN - Metropolitan Area Network
• MMU - Memory Management Unit
• MPEG - Motion Pictures (Coding) Experts Group
• MS-DOS - Microsoft DOS

• PC - personal computer
• PCMCIA - Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
• PDA - Personal digital assistant
• POP - Point of Presence
• POP3 - Post Office Protocol v3

• RAM - Random Access Memory
• RGB - Red, Green, Blue
• RIP - Routing Information Protocol - Raster Image Processor
• ROM - Read Only Memory

• SEAL - Semantics-directed Environment Adaptation Language
• SEI - Software Engineering Institute

• TLA - three letter acronym (actually an initialism, not an acronym)

• WAIS - Wide Area Information Servers
• WAN - Wide Area Network
• WAP - wireless application protocol
• WOL - Wake on LAN
• WWW - World Wide Web
• XHTML - eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language

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External links

• Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/vera/vera_toc.html)