FULL FORM OF COMPUTER

AMD – Advanced Micro Devices

APC – American Power Conversion


ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange


ASIC – Application Specific Integrated Circuit


ASPI – Advanced SCSI Programming Interface


AT – Advanced Technology


ATI – ATI Technologies Inc.


ATX – Advanced Technology Extended




B

BFG – BFG Technologies


BIOS – Basic Input Output System


BNC – Barrel Nut Connector




C

COMPUTER – Common Operating Machine particularly Used For Tade, Education and Research.

CAS – Column Address Signal

CD – Compact Disk


CDR – Compact Disk Recorder


CDRW – Compact Disk ReWriter


CD-ROM – Compact Disk - Read Only Memory


CFM – Cubic Feet per Minute


CMOS – Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor


CPU – Central Processing Unit


CTX – CTX Technology Corporation




D

DDR – Double Data Rate


DDR-SDRAM – Double Data Rate - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory


DFI – DFI Inc. Design for Innovation


DIMM – Dual Inline Memory Module


DRAM – Dynamic Random Access Memory


DPI – Dots Per Inch


DSL – See ASDL


DVD – Digital Versatile Disc


DVD-RAM – Digital Versatile Disk - Random Access Memory




E

ECC – Error Correction Code


ECS – Elitegroup Computer Systems


EDO – Extended Data Out


EEPROM – Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory


EPROM – Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory


EVGA – EVGA Corporation




F

FC-PGA – Flip Chip Pin Grid Array


FDC – Floppy Disk Controller


FDD – Floppy Disk Drive


FPS – Frame Per Second


FPU – Floating Point Unit


FSAA – Full Screen Anti Aliasing


FS – For Sale


FSB – Front Side Bus




G

GB – Gigabytes


GBps – Gigabytes per second or Gigabits per second


GDI – Graphical Device Interface


GHz – GigaHertz




H

HDD – Hard Disk Drive


HIS – Hightech Information System Limited


HP – Hewlett-Packard Development Company


HSF – Heatsink Fan




I

IBM – International Business Machines Corporation


IC – Integrated Circuit


IDE – Integrated Drive Electronics


IFS- Item for Sale


IRQ – Interrupt Request


ISA – Industry Standard Architecture


ISO – International Standards Organization




J

JBL – JBL, Jame B. Lansing., Speakers


JVC – JVC Company of America




K

Kbps – Kilobits Per Second


KBps – KiloBytes per second




L

LG – LG Electronics


LAN – Local Area Network


LCD – Liquid Crystal Display


LDT – Lightning Data Transport


LED – Light Emitting Diode




M

MAC – Media Access Control


MB  – MotherBoard or Megabyte


MBps – Megabytes Per Second


Mbps – Megabits Per Second or Megabits Per Second


MHz – MegaHertz


MIPS – Million Instructions Per Second


MMX – Multi Media Extensions


MSI – Micro Star International




N

NAS – Network Attached Storage


NAT – Network Address Translation


NEC – NEC Corporation


NIC – Network Interface Card




O

OC – Over Clock


OCZ – OCZ Technology


OEM – Original Equipment Manufacturer




P

PC – Personal Computer


PCB – Printed Circuit Board


PCI – Peripheral Component Interconnect


PDA – Personal Digital Assistant


PCMCIA – Peripheral Component Microchannel Interconnect Architecture


PGA – Professional Graphics Array


PLD – Programmable Logic Device


PM – Private Message or Private Messaging


PnP – Plug ‘n Play


PNY – PNY Technology


POST – Power On Self Test


PPPoA – Point to Point Protocol over ATM


PPPoE – Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet


PQI – PQI Corporation


PSU – Power Supply Unit




R

RAID – Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks


RAM – Random Access Memory


RAMDAC – Random Access Memory Digital Analog Convertor


RDRAM – Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory


ROM – Read Only Memory


RPM – Revolutions Per Minute




S

SASID – Self scanned Amorphous Silicon Integrated Display


SCA – SCSI Configured Automatically


SCSI – Small Computer System Interface


SDRAM – Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory


SECC – Single Edge Contact Connector


SODIMM – Small Outline Dual Inline Memory Module


SPARC – Scalable Processor ArChitecture


SOHO – Small Office Home Office


SRAM – Static Random Access Memory


SSE – Streaming SIMD Extensions


SVGA – Super Video Graphics Array


S/PDIF – Sony or Philips Digital Interface




T

TB – Terabytes


TBps – Terabytes per second


Tbps – Terabits per second


TDK – TDK Electronics


TEC – Thermoelectric Cooler


TPC – TipidPC


TWAIN – Technology Without An Important Name




U

UART – Universal Asynchronous Receiver or Transmitter


USB – Universal Serial Bus


UTP – Unshieled Twisted Pair




V

VCD – Video CD


VPN – Virtual Private Network




W

WAN – Wide Area Network


WTB – Want to Buy


WYSIWYG – What You See Is What You Get




X

XGA – Extended Graphics Array


XFX – XFX Graphics, a Division of Pine


XMS – Extended Memory Specification


XT – Extended Technology

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