Thursday, 1 December 2011

ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line


AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port



ALI - Acer Labs, Incorporated



ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit



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 ---



CAS - Column Address Signal



CD - Compact Disk



CDR - Compact Disk Recorder



CDRW - Compact Disk Re-Writer



CD-ROM - Compact Disk - Read Only Memory



CFM - Cubic Feet per Minute (ft�/min)



CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor



CPU - Central Processing Unit



CTX - CTX Technology Corporation (Commited to Excellence)





--- 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 - Overclock (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 / 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/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/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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