Short Abbreviations

S.No Abbreviation Detail

1. AC Alternative Cable
2. AGP Advanced Graphics Port
3. ALGOL Algorithmic oriented language
4. ALU Arithmetic & logic unit
5. ANSI American national standard institute
6. API Application programming interface
7. ASCII American standard code for information
interchange
8. AT Advanced Technology
9. ATM Automatic teller machine
10. BASIC Beginner All-purpose symbolic information
codes
11. BIOS Basic input / output system
12. BIT Binary digits
13. BUG Error in computer
14. CAAT Computer assisted audit techniques
15. CAD Computer aided design
16. CAM Computer aided manufacturing
17. CDROM Computer disk read only memory
18. CGA Color graphics adapter
19. CMOS Complementary metallic oxide semiconductor
20. COBOL Common business oriented language
21. CPU Central processing unit
22. CRT Cathode ray tube
23. CSMA / CD Carrier sense multiple access with collision
detection
24. CU Control unit
25. CUI Command user interface
26. DCL Data control language
27. DDR Double data rate
28. DFD Data flow diagram
29. DIPS Data information processing system
30. DML Data manipulation language
31. DOS Disk operating system
32. DPI Dots per inch
33. DRAM Dynamic random access memory
34. DVD Digital video disk
35. EBCDIC Extended binary coded decimal interchange
code
36. EDC Enhanced data correction
37. EDSAC Electronic delay storage automatic computer
38. EDVAC Electronic discrete variable automatic
computer
39. EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only
Memory
40. EFT Electronic Fund Transfer
41. EGA Enhanced Graphics Adopter
42. ENIAC Electronic Numerical integrator and calculator
43. EPROM Erasable programmable read only memory
44. ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
45. FDDI Fiber distributed data interface
46. FORTRAN FORmula RANslation
47. FTP File transfer protocol
48. GIF Graphical interchange format
49. GUI Graphical user interface
50. HTML Hyper text markup language
51. HTTP Hyper text transfer protocol
52. IBM International business machine
53. IEEE institute of electrical & Electronic engineer
54. IIS internet information server
55. I.Q Intelligence Quantity
56. ISA Integrated standard architecture
57. ISDN integrated service data network
58. ISP Internet service provider
59. JPEG Joint photographic experts group
60. KIPS knowledge information processing system
61. LASER
62. LCD Liquid Crystal Display
63. LED
64. LIPS
65. Mbps Mega bits per second
66. MBPS
67. MCA
68. MICR
69. MSDN
70. MSI
71. NEC
72. NetBIOS
73. NT New Technology
74. OCR
75. OMR
76. PASCAL
77. PCI
78. PDF Portable Document Format
79. PL/I
80. POS Point of Sell
81. PROLOG
82. PROM
83. RAM
84. ROM
85. RTP
86. SDLC
87. SMTP
88. SQL
89. SSI
90. SRAM
91. SVGA
92. TB
93. TCP / IP
94. UHTTP
95. UNIVAC
96. UPS uninterrupted power supply
97. URL
98. USB universal serial bus
99. UTP
100. VB Visual Basic
101. VDU
102. VGA
103. WIMP
104. WOL
105. Windows ME
106. Windows NT windows New Technology
107. Windows XP
108. WWW world wide web
109. CNG compact natural gas