Computer Acronyms and Terminology

Vocabulary flashcards defining computing and technology acronyms gathered from the lecture sources.

DTP

desktop publishing

LED

Light Emitting Diode

HDMI

High Definition Multimedia Interface

POS

point of sale

ROM

Read Only Memory

WIMP

Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers

CPU

Central Processing Unit

BIOS

Basic Input/Output System

GUI

Graphical User Interface

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

OCR

Optical Character Recognition

LCD

Liquid Crystal Display

VoIP

voice over internet protocol

FLOPS

floating-point operations per second

MIPS

million instructions per second

DVD

digital video disc

USB

Universal Serial BUS

JPEG

Joint Photographic Experts Group

DPI

dots per inch

AMOLED

Active-Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode

OLED

Organic Light Emitting Diode

PSU

Power Supply Unit

SDRAM

synchronous dynamic random access memory

SSD

Solid State Drive

HDD

Hard Disk Drive

CD

compact disc

MOOC

Massive Open Online Course

DBMS

database management system

RAM

Random Access Memory

GPU

Graphics Processing Unit

NIC

Network Interface Card

Wi-Fi

Wireless Fidelity

CAD

Computer Aided Design

VGA

Video Graphics Array

OS

operating system

IoT

Internet of Things

DVI

Digital Visual Interface

VDU

Visual Display Unit