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
