Common IT and Computer Acronyms
Posted on Jan 27, 2025 in Computers
- AFR – Annualized Failure Rate
- ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- BCC – Blind Carbon Copy
- BIOS – Basic Input-Output System
- BIT – Binary digit
- BSOD – Blue Screen of Death
- CC – Carbon Copy
- CLI – Command Line Interface
- CMS – Content Management System
- CPU – Central Processing Unit
- CR – Carriage Return
- CSV – Comma-Separated Values
- DBMS – Database Management System
- DIMM – Dual In-line Memory Module
- DM (Twitter) – Direct Message
- DMA – Direct Memory Access
- EULA – End-User License Agreement
- FAT – File Allocation Table
- FCFS – First Come, First Served
- FF – Form Feed
- FF (Twitter) – Follow Friday
- FIFO – First In, First Out
- FLOPS – Floating point Operations Per Second
- FLOSS – Free/Libre/Open Source Software
- FPU – Floating Point Unit
- FTP – File Transfer Protocol
- GFF (Twitter) – Get Followers Fast
- GID – Group Identifier
- GIGO – Garbage In, Garbage Out
- GNOME – GNU Network Object Model Environment
- GNU – GNU’s Not Unix !
- GPT – GUID Partition Table
- GPU – Graphics Processing Unit
- GUI – Graphical User Interface
- GUID – Globally Unique Identifier
- HCI – Human-Computer Interaction
- HCL – Hardware Compatibility List
- HTML – Hyper Text Markup Language
- HTTP – Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
- IBM – International Business Machines
- ICT – Information and Communication Technologies
- IDE – Integrated Device Electronics / Integrated Development Environment
- IIS – Internet Information Server
- IRQ – Interrupt Request
- IT – Information Technology
- KB – KiloByte
- KiB – KibiByte
- LAMP – Linux – Apache – MySQL – PHP/Perl/Python
- LCMS – Learning Content Management System
- LF – Line Feed
- LMS – Learning Management System
- LSSI – Ley de Servicios de la Sociedad de la Información y de Comercio Electrónico
- MAMP – Mac OS X – Apache – MySQL – PHP/Perl/Python
- MAX – MAdrid linuX
- MBR – Master Boot Record
- MS-DOS – Microsoft Disk Operating System
- MT (Twitter) – Modified Tweet
- MTBF – Mean Time Between Failures
- NIC – Network Interface Card
- NVRAM – Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
- OCR – Optical Character Recognition
- OODBMS – Object-Oriented Database Management System
- OOP – Object-Oriented Programming
- P2V – Physical to Virtual
- PATA – Parallel ATA
- PID – Process Identifier
- PIF – Program Information File
- POSIX – Portable Operating System Interface for UNIX
- POST – Power On Self Test
- RAID – Redundant Array Independent/Inexpensive Disks
- RDBMS – Relational Database Management System
- RSS – Really Simple Syndication
- RT (Twitter) – Retweet
- SAS – Serial Attached SCSI
- SATA – Serial ATA
- SCSI – Small Computer System Interface
- SEO – Search Engine Optimization
- SERP – Search Engine Results Page
- SFTP – Secure FTP
- SIMM – Single In-line Memory Module
- SJF – Shortest Job First
- SQL – Structured Query Language
- SSD – Solid State Drive
- SVG – Scalable Vector Graphics
- TL (Twitter) – Timeline
- TUI – Text User Interface
- UEFI – Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
- UID – User ID
- UX – UniX / User eXperience
- VDI – Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
- VLSI – Very Large Scale Integration
- VT – Virtual Terminal / Virtualization Technology
- W3C – World Wide Web Consortium
- WAMP – Windows – Apache – MySQL – PHP/Perl/Python
- WAN – Wide Area Network
- WIMP – Windows Icons Menus Pointers
- WLAN – Wireless Local Area Network
- XML – eXtensible Markup Language
