Acronimos

ACRONIMOS DE COMPUTACION E INFORMATICA

4GL 4th Generation Language (Lenguaje de Cuarta Generación)
AI Artificial Intelligence (Inteligencia Artificial)
ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit (Unidad aritmético-lógica)
AMD Advanced Micro Devices
AOL America OnLine
API Aplication Programming Interface
ARCNET Attached Resource Computer Network
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
AT&T American Telephone & Telegraph
AVI Audio Video Interleave
BASIC Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BIOS Basic Input/Output System
BIPS Billion Instructions Per Second (miles de millones de instrucciones por segundo)
Bps Bits por segundo
CATV CAble TeleVision / Community Antenna TeleVision
CD Compact Disk (Disco Compacto)
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CD-R Compact Disk Recordable (Disco Compacto Grabable)
CD-ROM Compact Disk Read Only Memory (Disco Compacto de Sólo Lectura)
CD-RW Compact Disk Rewritable (Disco Compacto Regrabable)
CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CMY Cyan Magenta Yellow
CMYK Cyan Magenta Yellow BlacK
COBOL COmmon Business Oriented Language
CODEC COmpression DECompression
CPU Central Processing Unit (Unidad Central de Procesamiento)
dB Decibeles
DB DataBase (Base de Datos)
DBMS DataBase Management System
DDR Double Data Rate
DHTML Dynamic HyperText Markup Language
DIMM Dual In-line Memory Module
DLL Dynamic Link Library (Librería de Enlace Dinámico)
DNS Domain Name System
DOS Disk Operating System (Sistema Operativo de Disco)
DVD Digital Video Disc o Digital Versatile Disk
E-Mail Electronic Mail (Correo Electrónico)
ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator
EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
FAT File Allocation Table (Tabla de Localización de Archivos)
FTP File Transfer Protocol GB Gigabyte
Gbps Gigabit por segundo
GHz GigaHerzios
GIF Graphics Interchange Format
GPS Global Positioning System (Sistema de Posicionamiento Global)
HDTV High-Definition TeleVision
HP Hewlett-Packard
HTML HyperText Markup Language
HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol
Hz Herzios
I/O Input/Output (Entrada/Salida)
IBM International Business Machines
IDE Integrated Drive Electronics IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IP Internet Protocol
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
KB KiloByte
Kbps Kilobits por segundo
KHz KiloHerzios
LAN Local Area Network
LCD Liquid Crystal Display (Pantalla de Cristal Líquido)
LED Light Emitting Diode (Diodo Emisor de Luz)
MB MegaByte
Mbps Mega bits por segundo
MHz MegaHerzios
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MODEM MOdulation DEModulation
MPEG Motion Picture Experts Group
MSN MicroSoft Network
OCR Optical Character Recognition (Reconocimiento Óptico de Caracteres)
ODBC Open DataBase Connectivity
PC Personal Computer (Computadora Personal)
PDF Portable Document Format
PING Packet InterNet Gopher
RAM Random Access Memory (Memoria de Acceso al Azar)
RGB Red / Green / Blue (Rojo / Verde / Azul)
ROM Read Only Memory (Memoria de Sólo Lectura)
SIMM Single In-line Memory Module
SQL Structured Query Language
SVGA Super Video Graphics Array
TIFF Tag Image File Format
URL Uniform Resource Locator
USB Universal Serial Bus
VGA Video Graphics Array
WAN Wide Area Network (Red de Área Amplia)
WMF Windows Meta Files
WWW World Wide Web
XML eXtensible Markup Language