General Computer Short Term and related full form terminology as:
| Short Term | Full Form |
|---|---|
| ABC | Atanasoff-Berry Computer |
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| ALU | Arithmetic and Logic Unit |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ATM | Automated teller machine or Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| AVI | Audio Visual Interleave |
| BIOS | Basic Input Output System |
| CD | Compact Disk |
| CU | Control Unit |
| CRT | Cathode Ray Tube |
| CGI | Common Gatweay Interface |
| CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Check |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| CAD | Computer Aided Design |
| CUI | Character User Interface |
| CAI | Computer Aided Instruction |
| CAL | Computer Aided Learning |
| CAM | Computer Aided Manufacturing |
| CSMA/CD | Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detection |
| CVT | constant voltage transformer! |
| DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DIMM | Dual In-line Memory Module |
| DMA | Dynamic Memory Access |
| DPI | Dot Per Inch |
| DVD | Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc |
| EDI | Electronic Data Interchange |
| EDO-RAM | extended data output-RAM |
| FAT | File Allocation Table |
| FLOPS | Floating Point Instruction Per Second |
| FAX | Far Away Xerox |
| FDC | Floppy Disk Controller |
| GIGO | Garbage In Garbage Out |
| GUI | Griphical User Interface |
| GPL | General Public Language |
| HD | Hyper Definiation |
| HDD | Hard Disk Drive |
| HDC | Hard Disk Controller |
| IDE | Integrated Development Environment |
| IRC | Internet Relay Chat |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IGMP | Internet Group Management Protocol |
| ISDN | Integrated Service Digital Network |
| LASER | Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
| LCD | Liquid Crystal Display |
| LED | Light Emitting Diode |
| MICR | Magnetic Ink Character Recognition |
| MIDI | Musical Instrument Digital Interface |
| NASSCOM | National Association of Software and Services Companies |
| NFS | Network File System |
| NTFS | New Technology File System |
| OCR | Optical Character Recognition |
| OLE | Object Linking and Embedding |
| OOP | Object Oriented Programming |
| OMR | Optical Mark Recognition |
| PATA | Parallel advanced technology attachment |
| P-COMMERCE | Pipe-Commerce |
| Portable Document Format | |
| PRM | Rotate Per Minute |
| QOS | Quality Of Service |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks or Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks |
| RAM | RAndom Access Memory |
| ROM | Read Only Memory |
| RJ | Registered Jack |
| RTF | Rich Text Format |
| SATA | Serial Advanced Technology Attachment |
| S-D-RAM | Synchronous dynamic random access memory |
| SIMM | single in-line memory module |
| SMPS | Switching-Mode Power Supply |
| UNIAC | UNIVersal Automatic Computer |
| UPS | Un-interruptable Power Supply |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus |
| UUCP | Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol |
| VGA | Video Graphics Array |
| VSAT | Very Small Aperture Terminal |
| WAIS | Wide Area Information System |
| WAV | Waveform Audio |
| WI-FI | Wireless Fidelity |
| WMF | Windows Metafile Format |
| WORM | Write Once Read More |
| WYSIWYG | what you see is what you get |
| ZIP | Zigzag Inline Package or zicxac inline pin |
