List of Computer Abbreviations w/ links

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IDE -Integrated Drive Electronics
PATA - Parallel Advance Technology Attachment
SATA - Serial Advance Technology Attachment
ATAPI - Advance Technology Attachment Packet Interface
USB - Universal Serial Bus
FSB - Front Side Bus
IEEE - Institute of Electrical And Electronics Engineers
VGA - Video Graphics Array
DVI - Digital Visual Interface
HDMI - High Definition Multimedia Interface


FDD - Floppy Disk Drive
HDD - Hard Disk Drive
SSD - Solid-State Drive

FAT - File Allocation Table
NTFS - New Technology Files System

CF card - Compact Flash card
SD card - Secured Digital Card
SDHC- Secured Digital High Capacity
MMC - MultiMedia card
RS-MMC - Reduce size MultiMedia Card

ROM - Read Only Memory
RAM - Random Access Memory
DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory
SDRAM - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

CPU - Central Processing Unit
BIOS - Basic Input Output System
CMOS - Complimentary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor

ISO - International Standard Organization
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
BASIC - Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

CD - Compact Disk
VCD - Video Compact Disk
DVD - Digital Versatile Disc

LAN - Local Area Network
MAN - Metropolitan Area Network
WAN - Wide Area Network
VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network
WLAN - Wireless Local Area Network
VPN - Virtual Private Network
TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
WINS - Windows Internet Name Service
RJ45 - Registered Jack 45
WI-FI - Wireless Fidelity
SOHO network - Small Office Home Office Network
VOIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
MODEM - MOdulator DEModulator
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
DSL - Digital Subscribers Line

WWW - World Wide Web
HTTP - Hypertext Transport Protocol
HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
XML - eXtensible Markup Language

LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
CRT - Cathode Ray Tube
LED - Light Emitting Diode

AMD - Advance Micro Devices
INTEL - INTegrated ELectronics
ATI - Array Technologies Incorporated
SLI - Scalable Link Interface

HTT - Hyper-Threading Technology

AI - Artificial Intelligence


PIXEL - Picture Element

AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port
PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect
ATX - Advance technology Extended
BTX - Balance Technology Extended

Only knew about a quarter of these. 0_o Thanks. Did a quick search on each of them until I got tired of reading. haha

Nice list and nice image
Thanks for this.