COMPUTER ABBREVIATION

 COMPUTER Abbreviation

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

AT - Advanced Technology

ATA-AT Bus Attachment

ATAPI-ATA Packet Interface

ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode

B 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

C 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

ASPI - Advanced SCSI ProgrammingInterface