- ALU: Arithmetic logic unit
- ACPI: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
- AC: Alternating Current
- AM: Amplitude Modulated
- AMD: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- AMD: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- AMI: American Megatrends Inc.
- ANSI: American National Standards Institute
- API: Application Program Interface
- APIC: Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
- APM: Advanced Power Management
- ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- ASIC: Application Specific Integrated Circuit
- ASPI: Advanced SCSI Programming InterfaceAT: Advanced Technology
- ATA: AT Bus Attachment
- ATAPI: ATA Packet Interface
- ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode
- BBS: Bulletin Board System
- BCC: Block Check Character
- BSC: Binary Synchronous Communications
- BSD: Berkeley Standard Distribution
- BTU: British Thermal Units
- BCD: Binary Coded Decimal
- BIOS: Basic Input / Output System
- BNC: Bayonet Nut Connector
- BPS: Bytes Per Second
- bps: bits Per Second
- CAM: Computer Aided Manufacturing
- CAD: Computer Aided Design
- CAS: Column Address Strobe
- CPU : Central Processing Unit
- CPI: Clocks Per Instruction
- CR: Carriage Return
- CUI : Composite User Interface
- CRT : Cathode Ray Tube
- CRC: Cyclical Redundancy Check
- CD: Carrier Detect & Compact Disc
- CD-R : Compact Disc-Recordable
- CD-RW : Compact Disc-ReWritable
- CD-ROM : Compact disc read-only memory
- CGA: Color Graphics Adapter
- CHS: Cylinder Head Sector
- COMPUTER: Common Oriented Machine Particularly Used for Trade Education and Research
- CMOS: Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
- CPLD: Complex Programmable Logic Device
- CSR: Command Status Register
- CRC: Cyclic Redundancy Check
- CTS: Clear To Send
- DVI : Digital Visual Interface
- DVD : Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc
- DAT: Digital Audio Tape
- DC: Direct Current
- DCD: Data Carrier Detect
- DCE: Data Circuit-terminating Equipment
- DD: Double Density
- DEC: Digital Equipment Corporation
- DIMM: Dual Inline Memory Module
- DIP: Dual-In-line Package
- DMA: Direct Memory Access
- DMI: Desktop Management Interface
- DOS: Disk Operating System
- DPE: Data Parity Error
- DRAM: Dynamic Random Access Memory
- DS: Double Sided
- DSP: Digital Signal Processor
- DSR: Data Set Ready
- DTA: Disk Transfer Area
- DTC: Data Terminal Controller
- DTE: Data Terminating Equipment
- DTR: Data Terminal Ready
- EBCDIC: Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
- EC: Error Check
- ECC: Error Check and Correction
- ECP: Enhanced Communication Port
- ECU: EISA Configuration Utility
- EDO: Extended Data Out RAM
- EEPROM: Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
- EGA: Enhanced Graphics Adapter
- EIA: Electronic Industries Association
- EIDE: Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics
- EISA: Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture
- EMI: Electro-Magnetic Interference
- EMF: Electro-Magnetic Force
- EMM: Expanded Memory Manager
- EMS: Expanded Memory Specification
- EOF: End Of File
- EOL: End Of Line
- EPP: Enhanced Parallel Port
- EPROM: Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
- ESCD: Extended System Configuration Data
- ESD: Electro-Static Discharge
- ESDI: Enhanced Small Devices Interface
- FTP – File Transfer Protocol
- FAT: File Allocation Table
- FCC: Federal Communications Commission
- FDD: Fixed/Floppy Disk Drive
- FDDI: Fiber Distributed Data Interface
- FDM: Frequency Division Multiplexing
- FDX: Full-Duplex Transmission
- FE: Front End
- FEP: Front End Processor
- FF: Form Feed
- FIFO: First-In First-Out
- FILO: First-In Last-Out
- FM: Frequency Modulation
- FPGA: Field Programmable Gate Array
- FPM: Fast Page Mode RAM
- FPU: Floating Point Unit
- FRC: Functional Redundancy Checking
- FRU: Field-Replaceable Unit
- FSF: Free Software Foundation
- FSK: Frequency Shifty Keying
- GUI : Graphical user interface
- GAS: Gallium Arsenide
- GFLOPS: Billions of Floating Point Operations Per Second
- HTML : Hyper Text Markup Language
- HD: High Density
- HDD: Hard Disk Drive
- HDX: Half-Duplex Transmission
- HFS: Hierarchical File System
- HPFS: High Performance File System
- IBM : International Business Machines
- I/O: Input/Output
- IC: Integrated Circuit
- IDE: Integrated Device Electronics
- IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
- IMP: Interface Message Processor
- IP: Internet Protocol
- IPC: Inter Process Communication
- IPX: Inter network Packet eXchange
- IRQ: Interrupt ReQuest
- ISA: Industry Standard Architecture
- ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network
- ISO: International Standards Organization
- ISR: Interrupt Service Routine
- IVT: Interrupt Vector Table
- JFS: Journalized File System
- KNI: Katmai New Instructions
- KVA: KiloVolt-Amps
- LBA: Linear Block Array / Addressing
- LCD : Liquid crystal display
- LAN : Local area network
- LOGO : Language of Graphic-Oriented
- LED: Light Emitting Diode
- LF: Line Feed
- LIF : Low Insertion Force
- LIM: Lotus/Intel/Microsoft’s Expanded Memory Manager
- LRU: Least-Recently Used
- LSB: Least Significant Byte/bit
- LSI: Large Scale Integration
- LUN: Logical Unit Number
- LASER : Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
- MAN : Metropolitan area network
- MESI: Modified/Exclusive/Shared/Invalid
- MIPS : Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
- MSo : Micro Soft Office, Multi system operator
- MB/Mb: Mega Bytes/bits
- MBR: Master Boot Record
- MCA: Micro Channel Architecture
- MCGA: Multi-Color Graphics Array
- MCM: Multi-Chip Module
- MDRAM: Multi-bank RAM
- MFLOPS: Millions of FLOating Point Operations per Second
- MFM: Modified Frequency Modulated
- MHz: MegaHertz
- MICR: Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
- MIDI: Musical Instrument Data Interface
- MIMD: Multiple-Instruction Multiple-Data
- MISD: Multiple-Instruction Single Data
- MMX: Multi-Media Extensions
- MNP: Microcom Network Protocol
- MODEM: MOdulator / DEModulator
- MOPS: Millions of Operations Per Second
- MOS: Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
- MP: Multi-Processor
- MPP: Massively Parallel Processor
- MPS: Multi-Processor System
- MSB: Most Significant Byte/bit
- MSDOS: Microsoft’s Disk Operating System
- SI: Medium Scale Integration
- MTBF: Mean Time Between Failure
- N/C: No-Connect
- NBS: National Bureau of Standards
- NEMA: National Electrical Manufacturers Association
- NFS: Network File System
- NFU: Not-Frequently Used
- NIC: Network Interface Card
- NMI: Non-Maskable Interrupt
- NMOS: Negatively doped Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
- NOP: No OPeration NRU Not-Recently Used
- NOS: Network Operating System
- NSF: National Science Foundation
- NTFS: New Technology File System
- NVRAM: NonVolatile Random Access Memory
- OCR: Optical Character Recognition
- ODI: Open Data link Interface
- OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer
- OS: Operating System
- OSF: Open Software Foundation
- OSI: Open Systems Interconnect
- PAL: Programmable Array Logic
- PB: Push Button
- PBX: Private Branch eXtender
- PC: Personal Computer, Program Counter
- PCB: Printed Circuit Board
- PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect
- PCM: Pulse Code Modulation
- PCMCIA: Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
- PE: Processor Element
- PFF: Page Fault Frequency
- PGA: Professional Graphics Array
- PGA: Pin Grid Array
- PIC: Programmable Interrupt Controller
- PIO: Programmed Input / Output
- PIROM: Processor Information ROM
- PLA: Programmable Logic Array
- PLCC: Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier
- PLD: Programmable Logic Devices
- PLL: Phase Locked Loop
- PM: Preventive Maintenance
- PMOS: Positively doped Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
- PnP: Plug-and-Play
- POST: Power On Self Test
- PPP: Point-to-Point Protocol
- PQFP: Plastic Quad Flat Pack
- PROM: Programmable Read Only Memory
- PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Network
- PSP: Program Segment Prefix
- PTE: Page Table Entry
- QAM: Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
- QFP: Quad Flat Pack
- QIC: Quarter Inch Cartridge
- RAM – Random-access memory
- RAID: Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks
- RAMDAC: Random Access Memory Digital to Analogue Converter
- RAS: Row Address Strobe
- RCA: Radio Corporation of America
- RCC: Routing Control Center
- RDRAM: Rambus DRAM
- RFC: Request For Comments
- RFI: Radio Frequency Interference
- RI: Ring Indicator
- RISC: Reduced Instruction-Set Computer
- RLL: Run Length Limited
- RMS: Root Mean Squared
- RMW: Read Modify Write
- ROM: Read Only Memory
- RPC: Remote Procedure Call
- RPM: Rotations Per Minute
- RTC: Real Time Clock
- RTS: Request To Send
- SAM: Sequential Access Memory
- SASI: Shugart Associates Standard Interface
- SCSI: Small Computer Systems Interface
- SD: Single Density
- SDLC: Synchronous Data Link Control
- SDRAM: Synchronous Dynamic RAM
- SDRAM DDR: Double Data Rate SDRAM
- SDRAM BDDR: Bi-Directional Strobed DDR SDRAM
- SE: Systems Engineer
- SEC: Single Edge Contact
- SFF: Small Form Factor
- SGRAM: Synchronous Graphics RAM
- SMS : Short Message Service
- SIMD: Single-Instruction Multiple-Data
- SIMM: Single Inline Memory Module
- SIPP: Single Inline Pinned Package
- SISD: Single-Instruction Single-Data
- SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol
- SMD: Surface Mount Device
- SMT: Surface Mount Technology
- SNA: System Network Architecture
- SNR: Signal to Noise Ratio
- SOL: Small Out Line
- SOIC: Small Outline Integrated Circuit
- SPOOL: Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On Line
- SPT: Sectors Per Track
- SPU: Single Processor Unit
- SRAM: Static Random Access Memory
- SS: Single Sided
- STDM: Synchronous Time Division Multiplexing
- STN: Super Twisted Nematic
- STU: Streaming Tape Unit
- SVGA: Super Video Graphics Array
- TCM: Trellis Code Modulation
- TCP : Transmission Control Protocol
- TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
- TDM: Time Division Multiplexing
- TI: Texas Instruments
- TIA: Telecomm Industry Association
- TLB: Translation-Look aside Buffer
- TPI: Tracks Per Inch
- TRANSISTOR: TRANSformer resISTOR
- TSR: Terminate and Stay Resident
- TTL: Transistor-Transistor Logic
- UAE: Unrecoverable Application Error
- UART: Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
- USART: Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
- UDP: User Datagram Protocol
- UMB: Upper Memory Block
- USB: Universal Serial Bus
- UNIX: A trademark used for a computer disk operating system
- UPS – Uninterruptible power supply
- USL: UNIX System Labs
- UUCP: UNIX to UNIX Copy Program
- VIRUS : Vital Information Resources Under Seize
- VDU : Visual Display Unit
- VBE: Video BIOS Extensions
- VCR: Video Cassette Recorder
- VESA: Video Enhanced Standards Association
- VGA: Video Graphics Array
- VLB: VESA Local Bus
- VLIW: Very Long Instruction Word
- VLSI: Very Large Scale Integration
- VM: Virtual Memory
- VME: Versa Module Euro-car
- VRAM: Video Random Access Memory
- VRT: Voltage Reduction Technology
- VTR: Video Tape Recorder
- WAN : Wide area network
- WATS: Wide Area Telephone Service
- WD: Western Digital
- WORM: Write Once – Read-Many
- WRAM: Window Random Access Memory
- WS: Wait State
- WWW : World Wide Web
- XGA: eXtended Graphics Array
- XMS: Extended Memory Specification
- XOR: Exclusive-OR
- XNOR: Exclusive-NOR
- XT: eXtended Technology
- ZIF: Zero Insertion Force