Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 1:28 am Post subject: ABBREVIATIONS, computer terms, short letters, words meaning View Single Post
ABBREVIATIONS
ADL - Architecture Description Language
ADO - ActiveX Data Object
ADSL- Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line
ADT - Abstract Data Type
AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port
ALU - Arithmetic/Logic Unit
ANSI- American National Standards Institute
AP - Adaptive Parallelism
ASP - Active Server Pages
API - Application Programming Interface
ASCII- American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ATH - Adobe Type Manager
BASIC- Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction code
BBS - Bulletin Board Service
BIOS- Basic Input Output System
BPS - Bits Per Second
BRU - Backup and Restore Utility
BWCC- Borland Windows Custom Control
CAD - Computer-Aided Design
CDF - Channel Definition Format
CERT- Computer Emergency Response Team
CGA - Color Graphics Adapter
CIFS- Common Internet File System
COM - Component Object Model
CMOS- Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CORBA-Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CPAN- Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
CPU - Central Processing Unit
CU - Control Unit
CVS - Concurrent Versions System
DAO - Data Access Object
DBC - Design By Contract
DDE - Dynamic Data Interchange
DCOM- Distributed Component Object Model
DES - Data Encryption Standard
DFSG- Debian Free Software Guidelines
DHCP- Domain Host Configuration Protocol
DLC - Data Link Control
DLL - Dynamic Link Library
DNS - Domain Name System
Dpi - Dots per Inch
DRAM- Dynamic Random Access Memory
Dsl - Digital Subsciber Line
DSSA- Domain Specific Software Architecture
EDI - Electronic Data Interchange
EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation
EGA - Enhanced Graphics Adapter
EJB - Enterprise Java Beans
ELKS- Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset
EMF - Expanded Memory Specification
EOF - End of File
EPSF- Encapsulated Postscript File Format
ETD - Element Type Declarations
EUV - Extreme Ultraviolet
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
FDS - Fundamental Data Structures
FDM - Frequency-Division Multiplexing
FMTYWTK-Far More Than You Wanted To Know
FSF - Free Software Foundation
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
FUD - Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
GCC - GNU C Compiler
GDI - Graphic Device Interface
GIF - Graphics Interchange Format
GNOME- GNU Network Object Model Environment
GPF - General Protection Fault
GPL- GNU Public License
GUI - Graphic User Interface
GUID -Globally Unique Identifier
HDD - High Density Drive
HDML- Handheld Devices Markup Language
HDSL -High Bit Rate DSL
HLL - High-Level Language
HMA - High memory Area
HTML- Hyper Text Markup Language
HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
IAB - Internet Architecture Board
IANA- Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
ICAAN-Internet Corp for Assigned Names And Numbers
IDE - Integrated Development Environment
IDL - Interface Definition Language
IDSL- ISDN DSL
IEEE-Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc.
I/O - input/output
IME - Input Method Environment
IP - Internet Protocol
IPC - Interprocess Communication
IRQ - Interrupt Request Line
ISDN- Integrated Services Digital network
ITS - Incompatible Timesharing System
JANET-Joint Academic Network
JAR - Java ARchive
JPEG- Joint Pictures Experts Group
JVM - Java Virtual Machine
KB - Kilobyte
LAN - Local Area Network
LBNL- Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory
LDAP- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
MB - megabyte
MDA - Monochrome Display Adapter
MDI - Multiple Document Interface
MIME- Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions
MOO - MUD OO
MMU - Memory Management Unit
MPC - Multimedia Personal Computer
MPEG- Motion Pictures Experts Group
MPL - Mozilla Public License
MS DOS- Microsoft Disk Operating System
MSIL- Microsoft Intermediate Language
MSN - Microsoft Network
MUD - Multi-User Dungeon
NAP - Network Access Point
NC - Network Computer
NCP - Network Control Protocol
NCSA- National Center For Supercomputing Applications
NIC - Network Information Center
NID - Network Intrusion Detector
NFS - Network File System
NNTP- Network News Transfer Protocol
NS - Nanosecond
OOA - Object-Oriented Analysis
OODM- Object-Oriented Design Methods
OLE - Object Linking and Embedding
OO - Object-Oriented
OOL - Object-Oriented Language
OOP - Object-Oriented Programming
OPS - Open Profiling Standard
ORB - Object Request Broker
OS - Operating System
OSD - Open Software Description
OSI - Open Source Initiative
OWL - Object Windows Library
PAP - Password Authentication Protocol
PANS- Public Access Network Services
PCB - Printed Circuit Board
PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect
PDA - Personal Digital Assistant
PDF - Portable Document Format
PDL - Program Design Language
PERL- Practical Extraction and Report Language
PNG - Portable Network Graphics
P3P - Platform for Privacy Preferences
PGML- Precision Graphics Markup Language
PGP - Pretty Good Privacy
PICS- Platform for Internet Content Selection
PIF - Program Information File
PING- Packet Internet Gopher
PLC - Programmable Logic Controller
PnP - Plug-n-Play
POSIX-Portable Operating System Interface
POP - Post Office Protocol
POTS- Plain Old Telephone Service
PPP - Point-to-Point Protocol
PPTP- Point-to-Point Tunnelling Protocol
PRI - Primary Rate Interface
PSDK- Platform Software Development Kit
PVC - Permanent Virtual Circuit
QEL - Quotation Exchange Language
RAD - Rapid Application Development
RADSL- Rate Adaptive ADSL
RAID-Redundent Arrays of Independent Disks
RAM - Random Access Memory
RCS - Revision Control System
RFC - Request For Comments
ROM - Read Only Memory
RPM - Red Hat Packet Manager
RSAC- Recreational Software Advisory Council
RSVP- ReSerVation Protocol
RTF - Rich Text Format
RTL - Register Transfer Language
SAN - Storage Area Network
SCSI- Small Computer Systems Interface
SDMI- Secure Digital Music Initiative
SDSL -Symmetric High-rate DSL
SET - Secure Electronic Transactions
SIMM- Single-in-line Memory Module
SLIP- Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMTP- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SOAP- Simple Object Access Protocol
SQL - Structured Query Language
SSL - Secure Sockets Layer
STD - Standard Template Library, State Transition Diagram
SWIG- Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator
TA - Terminal Adapter
Tcl - Tool Control Language
Tcp - Transmission Control Protocol
TDM - Time-Division Multiplexing
TEI - Text Encoding Initiative
TIFF- Tagged Image File Format
TLD - Top Level Domain
TOC - Table of Contents
TSR - Terminate-and-Stay Resident
TTP - Trusted Third Party
TUI - Text User Interface
UDSL- Universal High-bit Rate DSL
UML - Unified Modeling Language
URI - Uniform Resource Identifier
URL - Uniform Resource Locator
UUCP- Unix-To-Unix Copy Protocol
VFS - Virtual File System
VGA - Video Graphics Array
VM - Virtual Machine
VML - Vector Markup Language
VOIP- Voice Over IP
VPN - Virtual Private Network
VRAM- Video Random Access Memory
VRML- Virtual reality Modeling Language
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
WAP - Wireless Access Protocol
WDM - Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
WIDL- Web Interface Definition Language
WML - Wireless Markup Language
WORM- Write Once Read Many
WYSIWYG- What You See Is What You Get
XML - Extensible Markup Language
XMI - XML Metadata Interchange Format
XPointer- XML Pointer Language
XSL - eXtensible Stylesheet Language
