Unidad VII

Parte “b”

Abreviaturas – Formación de Palabras

 

 

Abreviations in IT

 

 

ANSI               American National Standard Institute

API                 Application Programming Interface

ARPA             Advanced Research Projects Agency

ASCII              American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ATM               Asynchronous Transfer Mode

AV                  Audio Video

 

 

BASIC            Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BBS               Bulletin Board System

BIOS              Basic Input Output System

Bit                   Binary digit

 

 

CAD               Computer Aided Design

CAE               Computer Aided Engineering

CAM               Computer Aided Manufacturing

CASE            Computer Aided Software Engineering

CBT                Computer Based Training

CD-R              Compact Disk - Recordable

CD-ROM       Compact Disk - Read Only Memory

CGI                 Common Gateway Interface

CISC              Complex Instruction Set Computer

CMOS            Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor

COM              Component Object Model

CORBA         Common Request Broker Architecture

 

 

DBMS            Data Base Management System

DDE               Dynamic Data Exchange

DLL                Dynamic Link Library

DMA               Direct Memory Access

DOS               Disk Operating System

dpi                  dots per inch

DRAM            Dynamic Random Access Memory

DSS               Decision Support System

DTP                Desk Top Publishing

DVD               Digital Video Disk

DWF              Drawing Web Format

 

 

EISA               Extended Industry Standard Architecture

EPROM         Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

EPS               Encapsulated PostScript

 

 

FAQ               Frequently Asked Questions

FDDI              Fibre Distributed Data Interface

FTP                File Transfer Protocol

 

 

GDI                 Graphics Device Interface

GIF                 Graphics Interchange Format

GUI                 Graphical User Interface

           

 

HDL                Hardware Description Language

HTML             Hyper Text Mark-up Language

HTTP              Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

 

 

IBM                 International Business Machine

IDE                 Integrated Development Environment

I/O                   Input/ Output

IP                    Intemet Protocol

IPNG              Internet Protocol Next Generation

IRC                 Internet Relay Chat

ISA                 Industry Standard Architecture

ISAPI              Internet Server Application Programming Interface

ISDN              Integrated Services Digital Network

ISO/OSI          International Standards Organization /Open Systems Interconnection

ISP                 Internet Service Provider

IT                     Information Technology

 

 

JDK                Java Developer's Kit

JPEG             Joint Photographic Experts Group

 

 

KB                  Kilo Byte

 

 

LAN                Local Area Network

LCD               Liquid Crystal Display

LED                Light Emission Diode

 

 

MAPI              Messaging Applications Programming Interface

MB                  Mega Byte

MFC               Microsoft Foundation Classes

MIDI                Musical Instruments Digital Interface

MIME              Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension

MPEG            Moving Picture Experts Group

 

 

NC                  Network Computer

NCSA            National Center for Supercomputing Applications

NCSA            National Computer Security Agency

NFS                Network File System

NT                   New Technology

 

 

OCR               Optical Character Recognition

OCX               Ole Control Extensions

OLAP             On Line Analytical Processing

OLE                Object Linking Embedding

OLTP             On Line Transaction Processing

OSF               Open Software Foundation

 

 

PCI                 Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCMCIA        Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

PDA               Personal Digital Assistant

PDF               Portable Document Format

PGP               Pretty Good Privacy

POP               PointofPresence

PPP               Point to Point Protocol

 

 

 Q&R               Query & Report

 

 

 

RAID              Redudant Array Indipendent Disks

RAM               Random Access Memory

RISC              Reduced Instruction Set Computer

ROM               Read Only Memory

RTF                Rich Text Fonlnat

 

 

SCSI              Small Computer SyStems Interface

SDK               Software Developer's Kit

SGML            Standard Generalized Mark-up Language

SIMM              Single In-line Memory Module

SLIP               Serial Line Internet, Protocol

SMTP             Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SNA               System Network Architecture

SOHO            Small Office Home Office

SQL                Structured Query LBnguage

SRAM            Static Random kacess Memory

SVGA            Super Video Graphics Array

 

 

TCP/IP           Transfer Control Protocol / Intemet (Internal) Protocol

TIFF                Tagged Imagine File Format

 

 

URL                Uniform Resource Locator

 

 

VBA               Visual Basic for Applications

VESA             Video Electronics Standards Association

VGA               Video Graphics Array

VRML             Virtual Reality Modeling Language

 

 

WAN              Wide Area Network

WORM           WriteOnceReadMultiple

WWAP           World Wide Analytical Processing

WWW            World Wide Web

 

XGA               Extended Graphics Array