COMPUTER CLASSES NOTES

1. ALU – arithmetic logic unit 2. ALGOL – algorithmic language 3. ASCII – American standard code for information interchange 4. BASIC – beginners all purpose symbolic instruction code 5. BCD– binary coded decimal 6. BIOS– basic input output system 7. CPU– central Processing Unit 8. CAD– Computer aided design 9. CAM– Computer aided manufacturing 10. CAT Scan – computerised Axial tomography scan 11. COBOL– common business oriented language 12. CD – compact disc 13. C-DOT– Centre for development of telematics 14. COMAL– common algorithmic language 15. DOS – disk operating system 16. DTS – desktop system 17. E- commerce – Electronic Commerce 18. E- Mail– electronic mail 19. ENLAC –  electronic numerical integrator and calculator 20. FAX–  Facsimile automatad Xerox 21. FLOPS– floating operations per second 22. FORTRAN– formula translations 23. HLL – high level languages 24. HTML – hi text markup language 25. WWW– world wide web 26. WAN – wide area network 27. VLSI – very e large scale Integrated 28. VDU – visual display unit 29. UPS– Uninterruptable power supply 30. SNOBOL – string oriented symbolic language 31. IBM – International business machine 32. IC – Integrated circuit 33. ISH – information super highway 34. LAN – Local area network 35. LDU – liquid display unit 36. LISP – list processing 37. LLL – low level language 38. MICR – magnetic ink character recogenizer 39. ROM – read only memory 40. RAM – Random Access Memory 41. PROM – Programmable read only memory 42. PC-DOC – personal computer desk operating system 43. OMR– optical mark reader 44. NICNET – National Information centre network 45. MPU – micro ofprocessor unit 46. MODEM – modulator demodulator 47. MOPS – Millions of operations per second 48. MIPS – millions of instructions per second 49. IP–  Internet protocol 50. HTTP – Hyper text  transfer protocol