Acronyms Compiled - Computer Software


AI -- Artificial Intelligence
ANSI -- American National Standard Institute (NY)
APNG -- Animated Portable Network Graphics -- Good choice for lossless animation sequences (GIF is less performant)
ASCII -- American Standard Code for Information Interchange
API -- Application Programing Interface
AVIF -- AV1 Image File Format -- Good choice for both images and animated images due to high performance.


BASIC -- Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BIOS -- Basic Input Output System
BMP -- Bit Map format


CAD -- Computer Aided Design
CP/M -- Control Program / Monitor


DDE -- Dynamic Data Exchange (MS Windows)
DLL -- Dynamic Link Library (Windows)
DMA -- Direct Memory Access
DTP -- DeskTop Publishing
DXF -- Drawing eXchange file Format


EFI -- Extensible Firmware Interface (partition)
EMS -- Expanded Memory Specification


FAT -- File Allocation Table
FLOP -- FLoating point OPeration


FORTRAN -- FORmula TRANslator
FPU -- Floating Point Unit


GIF -- Graphics Interchange Format -- Good choice for simple images and animations.
GPT -- GUID Partition Table
GUI -- Graphical User Interface


HDL -- Hardware Description Language
HTML -- HyperText Mark-up Language (WWW)


IDE -- Integrated Development Environment


JPEG -- Joint Photographic Expert Group image -- Good choice for lossy compression of still images (currently the most popular).
JSON -- JavaScript Object Notation


LIM EMS -- Lotus-Intel-Microsoft Expanded Memory Specification
LZ-78 -- Lempel & Ziv 1978 (compression)
LZW -- Lempel, Ziv & Welch


MBR -- Master Boot Record
MIME -- Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIPS -- Millions of Instructions Per Second
MPEG -- Motion Picture Experts Group
MS-DOS -- MicroSoft Disk Operating System


OS -- Operating System
OSF -- Open Software Foundation
OSI -- Open Systems Interconnection (ISO 7498)


PC -- Program Counter
PDF -- Portable Document Format
PERL -- Practical Extraction and Report Language
PING -- Packet INternet Grouper (RFC-792)
PL/1 -- Programming Language (version) 1
PNG -- Portable Network Graphics -- Good choice for lossless compression of still images (slightly better quality than JPEG).
POSIX -- Portable Operating System Interface (IEEE)
POST -- Power On Self Test
PS -- Post Script


RAD -- Rapid Application Development
RDBMS -- Relational Data Base Management System
RLL -- Run-Length Limited (code)
RTF -- Rich Text Format
RTOS -- Real Time Operating System


SAL -- SQL-windows Application Language
SCI -- Scalable Coherent Interface (IEEE 1596 - 1 Gbit/s)
SGML -- Standard Generalized Mark-up Language
SMPTE -- Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers
SNA -- System Network Architecture (IBM)
SQL -- Structured Query Language
SSH -- Secure Shell
SVG -- Scalable Vector Graphics -- Vector image format. Use for images that must be drawn accurately at different sizes.


TIFF -- Tag Image File Format
TSR -- Terminate and Stay Resident (DOS)
TXT -- TeXT
 

UEFI -- Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (Specification)
URL -- Universal Resource Locator (Internet)


VHDL -- VHSIC Hardware Description Language
VPN -- Virtual Private Network


W3 -- World Wide Web (WWW)
W3C -- World Wide Web Consortium
WebP -- Web Picture format -- Excellent choice for both images and animated images.
WMF -- Windows Meta File
WWAN -- Wireless Wide Area Networks
WWN -- World Wide Net
WWW -- World Wide Web
WYSIWYG -- What You See Is What You Get