Some of the Most Used Laptop and Desktop Computer Abbreviations

Popular Computer Terms

Anyone who has even a passing in interest in computers and computing will be aware that there are an abundance of technical terms, abbreviations and acronyms. Over the next few pages, we will list some of the more popular of these, in the hope that it will help you find your way around these terms.

ACL - Access Control List
ADC - Analogue to Digital Converter
ADF - Automatic Document Feeder
ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port
AIFF - Audio Interchange File Format
AIX - Advanced Interactive Executive
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
API - Application Program Interface
ARP - Address Resolution Protocol
ASCII - American Standard Code For Information Interchange
ASP - Active Server Page OR Application Service Provider
ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment
ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode
BASIC - Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BCC - Blind Carbon Copy
BIOS - Basic Input/Output System
BLOB - Binary Large Object BMP Bitmap
CAD - Computer-Aided Design
CC - Carbon Copy
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