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Abbreviation Full-name

A/D Analog-to-Digital

ABC Atanasoff Berry Computer

ACM Association for Computing Machinery

AI Artificial Intelligence

ALGOL Algorithic Language

ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit

AMD Advanced Micro Devices

ARPANET Advanced Research Project Agency Network

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

BASIC Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BCD Binary Coded Decimal

BIOS Basic Inpute Output System

BIPS Billions of Instructions Per Second

BPI Bytes Per Inch

CAD Computer Aided Design

CAE Computer Aided Engineering

CAN Campus Area Network

CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering

CD Compact Disk

CDC Control Data Corporation

CD-R CD-Recordable

CD-ROM Compact Disk Read Only Memory

CD-RW CD Read/Write

CL Command Language

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CLI Command Line Interface

COBOL Common Business Oriented

CODASYL Conference On Data Systems

CPU Central Processing Unit

CRT Cathode Ray Tube

D/A Digital-to-Analog

DAT Digital Audio Tape

DBMS Data Base Management System

DBS Demand Based Switching

DDL Data Definition Language

DDS Digital Data Storage

DEC Digital Equipment Corporation

DMA Direct Memory Access

DNA Digital Network Architecture

DPI Dots Per Inch

DRAM Dynamic RAM

DSN Distributed Systems Network

DTS Digital Theater System

DVD Digital Video/Versatile Disk

EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

EDSAC Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator

EDVAC Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Calculator

EFM Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation

ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator

EPG Electronic Programming Guide

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EPIC Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing

EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

FAT File Allocation Table

FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing

FEP Front End Processor

FLOPS Floating Point Operations Per Second

FM Frequency Modulation

FMS File Management System

FORTRAN FORmula TRANslation

FSK Frequency Shift Keying

FTP File Transfer Protocol

GB Giga Bytes

GFLOPS Giga FLOPS

GHz Giga Hertz

GNU Gnu Not Unix

GPRS General Packet Radio Service

GSM Global System for Mobile communication

GUI Graphical User Interface

HP Hewlett Packard

HSS Hierarchical Storage System

HTML HyperText Markup Language

HTTP HyperText Transport Protocol

IBM International Business Machine

IC Integrated Circuit

IDN Integrated Digital Networks

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IP Internet Protocol

IrDA Infrared Data Association

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network

ISP Internet Service Provider

JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group

JRE Java Runtime Engine

JSP Java Server Pages

KB Kilo Bytes

KHz Kilo Hertz

LAN Local Area Network

LCD Liquid Crystal Display

LED Light Emitting Diode

LPM Line Per Minute

LSI Large Scael Integration

MAN Metropolitan Area Network

MAR Memory Address Register

MB Mega Bytes

MBR Memory Buffer Register

MHz Mega Hertz

MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MIPS Millions of Instructions Per Second

MNP Microcom Network Protocol

MPEG Moving Pictures Experts Group

MS-DOS MicroSoft Disk Operating System

MVT Multiprogramming with Variable Tasks

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NIC Network Interface Card

NICNET National Informatics Center NETwork

NOS Network Operating System

OCR Optical Character Recognition

OMR Optical Mark Reader

OS Operating System

OSI Open System Interconnection

OSS Open Source Software

PAN Personal Area Network

PC Personal Computer

PDF Portable Document Format

PDL Program Design Language

PDP Program Data Processor

PIP Peripheral Interchange Program

PROM Programmable Read-Only Memory

QoS Quality of Service

RAM Random Access Memory

ROM Read Only Memory

SDLC Software Development Life Cycle

SEQUEL Structured English QUEry Language

SGML Syntax for Generalized Markup Language

SIMM Single In-line Memory Module

SNA Systems Network Architecture

SNOBOL StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language

SQL Structured Query Language

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SRAM Static RAM

SSI Small Scale Integration

TB Tera Bytes

TCP Transport Control Protocol

TDM Time Division Multiplexing

UDP User Datagram Protocol

ULSI Ultra Large Scale Integration

UPC Universal Product Code

URL Uniform Resource Locator

USB Universal Serial Bus

UTF Unicode Transformation Format

VAN Value Added Network

VCR Video Cassette Recorder

VDT Video Display Terminal

VGA Video Graphics Array

VOD Video-On-Demand

VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol

VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal

WAN Wide Area Network

WAP Wireless Application Protocol

WiMAX Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access

WLAN Wireless Local Area Network

WLL Wireless Local Loop

WORM Write Once Read Many

WWW World Wide Web

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XHTML eXtensible HyperText Markup Language

XML eXtensible Markup Language

X.400 Electronic Mail Protocol

X.500 Directory Server Protocol

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