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Jehovah's Kingdom - Computer Acronyms 1994 
"Jehovah" is God's name gleaned from ancient Hebrew
and means "He causes to become". The vowels were
added later as it was not the custom to write them down.
Last Updated 1994
Jehovah's Kingdom
1994 Computer Acronyms
AC Alternating Current
ANSI American National Standards Institute
API Application Programming Interface
APM Advanced Power Management
ARC Attached Resource Computer [network (old)]
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASPI Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
ASIC Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
ATM Adobe Type Manager
AUTOEXEC.BAT AUTO-EXECuting BATch [file for startup in DOS]
AV Anti-Virus
.BAT BATch [file]
BBS Bulletin Board Service
BIOS Basic Input/Output System
BIU Bus Interface Unit
BJT Bi-polar Junction Transistor
C Celsius
CAD Computer Aided Design
CAE Computer Aided Emulation
CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing OR Common Access Method
CCD Charge-Coupled Device
CD Compact Disk
.CFG ConFiGuration [file]
CGA [monitor]
CISC Complex Instruction Set Computer
CLI Call Level Interface
CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor
.COM COMmand [file]
CONFIG.SYS CONFIGures SYStem prior to startup [DOS]
CPS Characters Per Second
CPU Central Processing Unit
CR Carriage Return
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CSA Canadian Standards Association
DC Direct Current
DCT Direct Cosine Transform
DD Double Density [360K/side floppy disk]
DDE Dynamic Data Exchange
DLL Dynamic Link Library
DLO Dynamically Linked Object
DMS Document Management System
DOS Disk Operating System
DP Data Processing
DPI Dots Per Inch
DPMI Dos Protected-Mode Interface
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
DS Double-Sided [floppy disk]
DTE Data-Terminal Equipment
DTP DeskToP
EDOS Expanded Disk Operating System
EAROM Electrically-Alterable Read-Only Memory
ECC Error-Correcting Code
EEPROM Electrically-Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EGA [monitor]
EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture
EMM Expanded Memory Manager
EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EPS Encapsulated Post-Script
ESDI Enhanced Small Device Interface
ExCA ExChangability Architecture
.EXE Executable [file]
F Fahrenheit
FAT File Allocation Table
FIFO First-In First-Out
FRAM Flash Random Access Memory
FS Flat Square [monitor]
FTP File Transfer Protocol
Gb Gigabyte(s)
GCR Gray Component Replacement
GDI Graphical Device Interface
GIF [image format (CompuServe)]
GUI Graphical User Interface
HASP HArdware-based Software Protection
HD High-Density [720K/side floppy disk] OR Hard Disk
HMA High Memory Area
HWD Height, Width, Depth [dimensions]
IC Integrated Circuit
IDAPI Integrated Database Application Programming Interface
IDE Integrated Drive Electronics
I/O Input/Output
IR InfraRed
IRQ Interrupt ReQuest
ISA Industry Standard Architecture
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group [image format]
Kb Kilobyte(s)
LAN Local Area Network
LASER Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LB Local Bus
LED Light-Emitting Diode
LF Line-Feed
LPI Lines Per Inch
LQ Letter-Quality
LSI Large Scale Integration
Mb Megabyte(s)
ms millisecond(s)
MCA Micro Channel Architecture
MCI Media Control Interface
MDI Multiple Document Interface
MFM [hard drive (old)]
MHz MegaHertz
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIS Metal-Insulator-Semiconductor
MM Multi-Media
MMA Microcomputers Managers Association
MOV Metal-Oxide Varistors
MPC Multi-media Personal Computer
MPR-II Maximum Permissible Radiation standard II
MR Magneto-Resistive
MTBF Mean Time Between Failures
NI Non-Interlaced [monitor]
NiCad Nickel Cadmium
NiMH Nickel- Metal Hydride
NOS Network Operating System
NTSC National Television Standard Committee
NVP Nominal Velocity of Propagation [cable]
NWC Nation Wide Company [on-site service warranty]
OCR Optical Character Recognition
ODBC Open DataBase Connectivity
OLE Object Linking and Embedding
O-ROM Optical Read-Only Memory
PAL Phase Alternate Line
PC Personal Computer
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCL Printer Control Language
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PCS Platform Code Security system
PCX [image format]
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
PIF Program Information File
PIM Personal Information Manager
POPC Print On Paper motion Command
POST Power-On Self-Test
RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RAM Random Access Memory
RDD Replaceable Database Driver
RET Resolution Enhancement Technology
RGB Red-Green-Blue
RHD Removable Hard Drive
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer
RLE Run-Length Encoding
RLL [hard drive]
ROM Read-Only Memory
RPM Revolution(s) Per Minute
RSIS Relocatable Screen Interface Specification
RVQ Recursive Vector Quantization
SAG SQL Access Group
SAGA Synchronous Application Graphics Acquisition
SCCS Source Code Control System
SCRN SCReeN
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
SD Single-Density [180K/side floppy disk]
SECAM SEquential Colour And Memory
SIMM Single In-line Memory Module [random access memory expansion]
SOHO Small Office, Home Office
SRAM Static Random Access Memory
SQE Signal-Quality Error
SQL Structured Query Language
STP Shielded Twisted Pair [cable]
SVGA [monitor]
SYS SYStem [file]
TDR Time-Domain Reflectometer [cable]
TGA [image format]
TIFF [image format]
TSO Time-Sharing Option
TSR Terminate and Stay Resident
TSTN Triple Super Twist Nematic
TTL Transistor-Transistor Logic
.TXT TeXT [file]
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter
UL Underwriters Laboratories
UMB Upper Memory Block
UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply
UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair [cable]
VCR Video Cassette Recorder
VESA Video Electronics Standards Association
VGA [monitor]
VLB Vesa Local Bus
VLSI Very Large Scale Integration
WAIS Wide Area Information Servers
WAN Wide Area Network
WFWG Windows For WorkGroups
WORM Write-Once Read Many times
WOSA Windows Open System Architecture
WP Word Processor
WWW World Wide Web
WYSIWYG What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get [display mode]
XGA [monitor]
XIP eXecute In Place
XMM Extended Memory Manager
XMS Extended Memory
ZIF Zero Insertion Force
Additional Information:
PCMCIA Hard Drives are 1.8" (PC Sources jun/93 p.104)
Hard Drives come in 3.5" and 5.25" (Computer Shopper aug/93 p. 148)