Important Abbreviation

Short Form

Full Form

COMPUTER full form

Common Operating Machine Particularly Used for Trade, Education, and Research

HCL full form

Hardware Compatibility List (what hardware works with Windows 95- a text file)

PDF full form

Portable Document File

MIS full form

Management Information Systems

MIS full form

Multimedia Information Sources

WWW full form

World Wide Web ( sometimes call W3)

WWW full form

World Wide Wait - slang

SMS full form

System Management Server

INS full form

InterNet communication Settings

DTP full form

Desk-Top Publishing

URL full form

Uniform Resource Locator

BIOS full form

Basic Input Output System

IBM full form

International Business Machines

CPU full form

Central Processing Unit

SAP full form

System Applications and Products

SAP full form

Service Access Point

SAP full form

Statistical Analysis Programming language

SAP full form

Service Advertising Protocol (NT uses to announce available resources to Novell equip)

SAP full form

Secure Application Protocol

COBRA full form

Common Object Request Broker Architecture

VIP full form

Vines Internet Protocol

NIC full form

Network Interface Card

IRDA full form

Infrared Data Association

UID full form

User IDentification (internet- intranet- and server login accesses)

PC full form

Personal Computer

ENIAC full form

Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator

MODEM full form

MODulate / DEModulate

PIN full form

Personal Identification Number

LCD full form

Liquid Crystal Display (often found on laptops)

NCC full form

Network Control Center

ECS full form

Enhanced Chip Set

IP full form

Internet Protocol

PCS full form

Personal Computer System

IT full form

Information Technology

COBOL full form

COmmon Business Oriented Language (programming language)

FORTRAN full form

FORmula TRANslation language (programming language)

DVD full form

Digital Video Disk

ISP full form

Internet Service Provider

IEEE full form

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

MD full form

Make Directory (DOS command)

CLASS full form

Compiled java program- often used as class extension

PVC full form

Permanent Virtual Circuits

POP full form

Power On Password

POP full form

1 Post Office Protocol (how PCs get email from internet)

POP full form

2 Point Of Presence (internet and WWW terminology for location of server)

SMTP full form

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

PNG full form

Portable Network Graphic  Newer graphic format that uses smaller files to display pictures

HP full form

Hewlett Packard

ACP full form

Auxiliary Control Process

DOS full form

Disk Operating System

CAD full form

Computer Aided Design

MPEG full form

Motion Picture Experts Group (file extension MPG)

PDA full form

Personal Desktop Assistant (hand held computer)

DSP full form

Digital Signal Processing

FAQ full form

Frequently Asked Questions (files often found on BBS and Internets)

CD full form

1 Compact Disk (Holds approx630 Mb of info)

CD full form

2 Change Directory (DOS command) 

CD full form

3 Carrier Dis-connect (modem talk) 

CD full form

4 Carrier Detect (modem talk)

ASP full form

Active Server Page

ASP full form

Application Service Provider

MMS full form

Microsoft Merchant Server

MMS full form

Microsoft Membership System

FTP full form

File Transfer Protocol

ARPANET full form

Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (the beginning of the internet)

ISDN full form

Integrated Services Digital Network (Internet connection: faster than a modem- but slower than a dedicated T-1 or T-10 connection- Allows digital and voice data to share the same line)

IPC full form

Inter-Processes Communications

PCI full form

1 Personal Computer Interface 

PCI full form

2 Peripheral Component Interconnect

XML full form

eXtensible Markup Language

DPI full form

Dots Per Inch (printing resolution or screen resolution)

DPI full form

Distributed Protocol Interface

IC full form

Integrated Circuit

VGA full form

Video Graphics Adapter

GNU full form

recursive acronym for GNUs Not UNIX - Linux style build of the UNIX kernel

RAS full form

Remote Access Server / Service

IDE full form

1 Integrated Development Environment 

IDE full form

2 Integrated Drive Electronics interface (drive/device controller technology)

ASAP full form

Application Assessment And Planning package (Lotus migration application)

PPP full form

Point to Point Protocol

POS full form

Point Of Sale (the scanners you see in supermarkets)

EEPROM full form

Electronic Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

STP full form

Shielded Twisted Pair

RSVP full form

Resource ReserVation Protocol

ID full form

Internal Device

RISC full form

"Reduced Instruction Set Computer (minimal ""self-processing"" power to reduces cost)"

IOS full form

Inter-network Operating System

CRT full form

Cathode Ray Tube (antiquated terminology for monitors - mainframe talk)

GCC full form

GNU C Compiler

ODBC full form

Open DataBase Connectivity (2 Components) (Microsofts shared data connections)

CD-ROM full form

Compact Disk - Read Only Memory

MAN full form

Metropolitan Area Network (several LANs connected together in a similar geographical region Hospitals and Colleges use these often to share resources)

MAN full form

MANual pages (Unix help files)

3D full form

Three Dimensional (usually refers to graphics- movies- wallpaper etc created to look as if they are 3 dimensional)

APL full form

Automatic Programming Language

SSL full form

Secure Sockets Layer (usually NT terminology)

PCB full form

Printed Circuit Board

HD full form

1 Hard Disk 2 High Density (type of disk format)

SQL full form

Structured Query Language (database standards)

CDR full form

A Graphics File extension- often used by Corel Draw