Computer Important Full Forms

Computer -  Important Abbreviations

A

Al – Artificial intelligence

ALGOL – Algorithmic Language

ARP – Address resolution Protocol

ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange

B

BINAC  - Binary Automatic Computer

BCC – Blind Carbon Copy

Bin – Binary

BASIC - Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BIOS – Basic Input Output System

Bit – Binary Digit

BSNL – Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited

C

CC – Carbon Copy

CAD – Computer Aided Design

COBOL – Common Business Oriented Language

CD – Compact Disc

CRT – Cathode Ray Tube 

CDR – Compact Disc Recordable

CDROM – Compact Disc Read Only Memory 

CDRW – Compact Disc Rewritable

CDR/W – Compact Disk Read/Write

D

DBA – Data Base Administrator

DBMS – Data Base Management System 

DNS – Domain Name System

DPI – Dots Per Inch

DRAM – Dynamic Random Access Memory

DVD – Digital Video Disc/Digital Versatile Disc

DVDR – DVD Recordable

DVDROM – DVD Read Only Memory

DVDRW – DVD Rewritable

DVR – Digital Video Recorder

DOS – Disk Operating System

E

EBCDIC – Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

e-Commerce – Electronic Commerce

EDP – Electronic Data Processing

EEPROM – Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

ELM/e-Mail – Electronic Mail

ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer 

EOF - End Of File 

EPROM - Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

 EXE - Executable 

F

FAX - Far Away Xerox/ facsimile

FDC - Floppy Disk Controller 

FDD - Floppy Disk Drive 

FORTRAN - Formula Translation 

FS - File System 

FTP - File Transfer Protocol

G

Gb - Gigabit 

GB - Gigabyte 

GIF - Graphics Interchange Format 

GSM -  Global System for Mobile Communication

H

HDD - Hard Disk Drive 

HP - Hewlett Packard

HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language 

HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

I

IBM - International Business Machine 

IM - Instant Message

IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol 

ISP - Internet Service Provider

J

JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group

K

Kb - Kilobit 

KB - Kilobyte 

KHz - Kilohertz 

Kbps - Kilobit Per Second

L

LCD – Liquid Crystal Display

LED – Light Emitting Diode

LPI – Lines Per Inch

LIS – Large Scale Integration

M

Mb – Megabit

MB – Megabyte

MPEG – Moving Picture Experts Group

MMS – Multimedia Message Service

MICR – Magnetic Ink Character reader

MIPS – Million Instructions Per Second

N

NIC – Network Interface Card

NOS – Network Operating System

O

OMR – Optical Mark Reader

OOP – Object Oriented Programming

OSS – Open Source Software

P

PAN – Personal Area Network

PC – Personal Computer

PDA - Personal Digital Assistant

PDF – Portable Document Format

POS – Point Of Sale

PNG - Portable Network Graphics

PPM – Pages Per Minute

PPP – Point-to-Point Protocol

PROM – Programmable Read Only Memory

PSTN – Public Switched Telephone Network

POST – Power On Self Test

PING – Packet Internet Gopher

R

RAM – Random Access Memory

RDBMS – Relational Data Base Management System

RIP – Routing Information Protocol

RTF – Rich Text Format

S

SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SQL – Structured Query Language

SRAM – Static Random Access Memory

SNMP – Simple Network Management Protocol

SIM – Subscriber Identification Module

T

TCP – Transmission Control Protocol

TB – Tera Bytes

U

UPS – Uninterrupted Power Supply

URI – Uniform Resource Identifier

URL – Uniform Resource Locator

USB -  Universal Serial Bus 

ULSI - Ultra Large Scale Integration

UNIVAC - Universal Automatic Computer

V

VAR – Variable

VGA – Video Graphics Array

VSNL – Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited

VDU – Visual Display Unit

W

Wi-Fi – Wireless Fidelity

WLAN – Wireless Local Area Network

WPA – Wi-Fi Protected Access

WWW – World Wide Web

WORM – Write Once Read Many

X

XHTML – eXtensible Hyper text Markup Language

XML -  eXtensible Markup language

Z

ZB – Zeta Byte