Acronimele
Acronimul este un cuvânt format din primele litere ale cuvintelor dintr-o sintagmă sau expresie, dintr-un titlu etc.
Acronimele sunt cuvinte inventate prin simplificare extremă, ușor de pronunțat. Acestea se folosesc doar într-o formă standard.
Dicţionar de acronime Informatică (DRAM-IRC)
DRAM – Dynamic Random Access Memory
DRM – Digital Rights Management
DSL – Digital Subscriber Line
DSLAM – Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
DTD – Document Type Definition
DV – Digital Video
DVD – Digital Versatile Disc
DVD+R – Digital Versatile Disc Recordable
DVD+RW – Digital Versatile Disc Rewritable
DVD-R – Digital Versatile Disc Recordable
DVD-RAM – Digital Versatile Disc Random Access Memory
DVD-RW – Digital Versatile Disc Rewritable
DVI – Digital Video Interface
DVR – Digital Video Recorder
ECC – Error Correction Code
EDI – Electronic Data Interchange
EIDE – Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics
EPS – Encapsulated PostScript
eSATA – External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
EUP – Enterprise Unified Process
EXIF – Exchangeable Image File Format
FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions
FDDI – Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FIFO – First In, First Out
FILO – First In, Last Out
FiOS – Fiber Optic Service
FLOPS – Floating Point Operations Per Second
FPGA – Field-Programmable Gate Array
FPS – Frames Per Second
FPU – Floating Point Unit
FQDN – Fully Qualified Domain Name
FSB – Frontside Bus
FTP – File Transfer Protocol
Gbps – Gigabits per second
GIF – Graphics Interchange Format
GIGO – Garbage In, Garbage Out
GIS – Geographic Information Systems
GPGPU – General-Purpose computation on Graphics Processing Units
GPIO – General Purpose Input/Output
GPS – Global Positioning System
GPU – Graphics Processing Unit
GUI – Graphical User Interface
GUID – Globally Unique Identifier
HDD – Hard Disk Drive
HDMI – High-Definition Multimedia Interface
HDTV – High Definition Television
HDV – High-Definition Video
HFS – Hierarchical File System
HSF – Heat Sink and Fan
HTML – Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP – Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS – HyperText Transport Protocol Secure
I/O – Input/Output
ICANN – Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers
ICF – Internet Connection Firewall
ICMP – Internet Control Message Protocol
ICS – Internet Connection Sharing
ICT – Information and Communication Technologies
IDE – Integrated Device Electronics, Integrated Development Environment
IDS – Intrusion Detection System
IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IGP – Integrated Graphics Processor
IIS – Internet Information Services
IM – Instant Message
IMAP – Internet Message Access Protocol
InterNIC – Internet Network Information Center
IP – Internet Protocol
IPS – Intrusion Prevention System
IPX – Internetwork Packet Exchange
IRC – Internet Relay Chat.