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4
4GL Fourth Generation (Programming) Language
 
A
AD Active Directory
ADSL Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line
AGP Accelerated Graphics Port
AI Artificial Intelligence
AIO All-In-One
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASP Active Server Pages is an server-side script engine for dynamically-generated web pages, developed by Microsoft.
AT Advanced Technology. The first form factor to become widely used. Released in 1984 by IBM.
AT&T American Telephone & Telegraph Company
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATX Advanced Technology Extended. A form factor created by Intel. The successor of the AT form factor
 
B
b / bit Binary Digit
B / Byte An ordered collection of (usually 8) bits, in which each bit denotes the binary value of 1 or 0
BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BIOS Basic Input and Output System
bps bits per second
Bus Binary Unit System
 
C
C A high-level language designed for system programming, usually (but not exclusively) for software development in the UNIX environment
CAD Computer-Aided Design
CAE Computer-Aided Engineering
CAI Computer Assisted Instruction
CAM Computer-Aided Manufacturing
CASE Computer-Aided Software Engineering
CD Compact Disk
CD-R Compact Disc-Recordable
CD-ROM Compact Disk-Read Only Memory
CD-RW Compact Disc ReWritable
CGA Colour Graphics Adapter
CISC Complex Instruction Set Computer
CMYK Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK
COBOL COmmon Business-Oriented Language
cps Characters per Second
CPU Central Processing Unit
CR Carriage Return
CSS Cascade Style Sheet
 
D
DAC Digital-to-Analog Converter
DAT Digital Audio Tape. DAT decks are becomming the standard for professional music recording
DBMS DataBase Management System
DD Disk Drive
DD Double Density (Floppydisk)
DDE Dynamic Data Exchange
DDoS Distributed Denial of Service
DDR Double-Data-Rate
DDR2 Double-Data-Rate Two
DEC Digital Equipment Corporation
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. A protocol that allows for automatic network configuration on IP based networks.
DIMM Dual In-line Memory Module
DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung, German national standards organization. The term DIN-connector can apply to many or all of the connectors specified by the German Institute. To specify a certain DIN-connector, the document number of the relevant DIN standard is added. Computer keyboards used a DIN-connector before the use of PS/2 was adapted.
DMA Direct Memory Access
DMZ DeMilitarized Zone. A zone inside a network that exposes certain services to an untrusted part of a network.
DNS Domain Name System. DNS translates, among others, domain names to computer addresses.
DOS Disk Operating System
DoS Denial of Service
dpi dots per inch
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
DS Double Sided (Floppydisk)
DTP DeskTop Publishing
DTV DeskTop Video
DVD Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc
DVD+R DVD + Recordable
DVD+RW DVD + ReWritable
DVD-R DVD - Recordable
DVD-Rom DVD Read Only Memory
DVD-RW DVD - ReWritable
DVI Digital Visual Interface a video interface standard which provides very high quality on digital displays
 
 
E
EDO-RAM Extended Data Out Random Access Memory
EGA Enhanced Graphics Adaptor
EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture
EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EPS(F) Encapsulated PostScript (File)
 
F
FD Floppy Disk
FDD Floppy Disk Drive
FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FPU Floating-Point Unit
FSB Front Side Bus
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FTP Foiled Twisted Pair
 
G
Gb Gigabit (1,000,000,000 bits)
GB Gigabyte (1024 megabytes)
GHz Gigahertz: one billion cycles per second
GPRS General Packet Radio Service
GUI Graphical User Interface
GVIF Gigabit Video Interface is a digital video serial interface designed by Sony to deliver video display output over a single twisted pair. It is intended primarily for automotive applications and its design is compatible with the HDCP encryption system.
 
H
HD Hard Disk
HD High Density (Floppydisk)
HD High Definition
HDCP High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection is a digital copy protection created by Intel Corporation to prevent the copying of digital video and audio content as it travels across DisplayPort, Digital Visual Interface (DVI), High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI), Gigabit Video Interface (GVIF), or Unified Display Interface (UDI) connections.
HDD Hard Disk Drive
HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface
HDTV High-Definition TeleVision
HP Hewlett Packard
HTML HyperText Markup Language
Hz Hertz (unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second), named after Heinrich Hertz
 
I
IBM Internation Business Machines
IC Integrated Circuit
ICT Information and communication Technology
IDE Integrated Drive Electronics: a standard hard disk controller
I/F Interface
I/O Input/Output
IP Internet Protocol
IPSec Internet Protocol Security
IRQ Interrupt ReQuest
ISA Industry Standard Architecture. An ISA bus is 16 bits wide
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ISO International Standard Organisation
 
J
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts' Group: Standard in image compression
 
K
Kb Kilobit (1.000 bits)
KB Kilobyte (1024 Bytes)
Kbps Kilobits per second
KHz Kilohertz: 1000 Cycles per second
 
L
LAN Local Area Network
LASER Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LED Light Emitting Diode
LQ Letter Quality
 
M
MATX microATX
Mb Megabit (1.000.000 bits)
MB MegaByte: one million bytes
MB Mother Board
Mbps Megabits per second
MBps Megabyte per second
MC Memory Card
MCA Micro Channel Architecture: standard 32-bits bus
MDI Medium Dependent Interface
MDIX Medium Dependent Interface Crossover (the "X" representing crossover)
MFM Modified Frequency Modulation (format to recognise disks: IBM and compatibles)
MHz Megahertz: one million cycles per second
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIPS Million Instructions Per Second
MODEM MOdulator/DEModulator
MPEG Moving Pictures Expert Group: standard for compressing and decompressing images
ms millisecond: thousandth of a second
MS-DOS Microsoft Disk Operating System
MTBF Mean Time Between Failure: Refers to the average rate of hours that a hardware device functions
 
N
NAK Negative AcKnowledgement
NAS Network Attached Storage
NAT Network Address Translation
NIC Network Interface Card
NLQ Near Letter Quality
 
 
O
OCR Optical Character Recognition
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OLE Microsoft's Object Linking and Embedding Standard
OOP Object Orientated Programming
OS Operating System
OSF Open Software Foundation
OSI Open System Interconnection
 
P
PABX Private Automated Branch eXchange
PC Personal Computer
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCI-E Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PDF Portable Document Format
PHP PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
pixel Picture Element
POST Power On Self Test
POTS Plain Old Telephone Service
ppi Pixels Per Inch
PPPoA Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
PPPoE Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet
PPTP Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
PROM Programmable Read-Only Memory
PS PostScript
PS/2 Personal System/2
PSC Printer-Scanner-Copier
PSU Power Supply Unit
 
R
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RAM Random Access Memory
RGB Red, Green, Blue
RIP Raster Image Processor
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer
RoHS Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive. This Directive restricts the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment. It restricts the use of six hazardous materials in the manufacture of various types of electronic and electrical equipment. RoHS is often referred to as the lead-free directive, but it restricts the use of the following six substances:
1. Lead (Pb)
2. Mercury (Hg)
3. Cadmium (Cd)
4. Hexavalent chromium (Cr6+)
5. Polybrominated biphenyls (PBB)
6. Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE)
ROM Read-Only Memory
RS Series Requirement Specification, referring to the interconnection standards for computing devices: RS232, RS422 and RS423
 
S
SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
SD Secure Digital
SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SIMM Single In-line Memory Module: circuit boards that contain RAM chips
SNA System Network Architecture: data network architecture developed by IBM
SO-DIMM Small Outline Dual In-line Memory Module
SOHO Small Offices/Home Offices
SQL Standard Query Language
STP Shielded Twisted Pair
SVGA Super Video Graphics Adapter
 
T
TB TeraByte: one trillion MegaBytes
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
TELEX TELeprinter EXchange
TFT Thin Film Transistor: In a TFT display, each pixel is produced by three tiny transistors: one each for red, green and blue. This allows for very clear and stable pictures
TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TIFF Tagged Image File Format: the kind of graphics file format created by a scanner
 
U
UDI Unified Display Interface is a digital video interface specification based on Digital Visual Interface.
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UDP/IP User Datagram Protocol/Internet Protocol
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
URL Uniform Resource Locator
URN Uniform Resource Name
USB Universal Serial Bus
UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair
 
V
VAX Virtual Address eXtension
VDT Video Display Terminal
VDU Visual Display Unit
VESA Video Electronics Standards Association is an international standards developing organization for computer graphics and was founded in 1989 by NEC Home Electronics and eight other video display adapter manufacturers
VGA Video Graphics Array
VMS Virtual Memory System
VPN Virtual Private Network
 
W
WAN Wide Area Network
WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy (often inaccurately referred to as Wireless Encryption Protocol)
WFW Windows For Workgroups
WIMP Window, Icon, Mouse and Pointer
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
WORM Write-Once/Read-Many
WP Word Processor
WP WordPerfect
WWW World Wide Web
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
 
X
XHTML eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language


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