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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

IC full form

Integrated Circuit

DPI full form

Dots Per Inch (printing resolution or screen resolution)

DPI full form

Distributed Protocol Interface

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)

SSL full form

Secure Sockets Layer (usually NT terminology)

APL full form

Automatic Programming Language

PCB full form

Printed Circuit Board

SQL full form

Structured Query Language (database standards)

HD full form

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

CDR full form

A Graphics File extension- often used by Corel Draw