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Brush up on your tech acronyms |
July 17, 2014
H. Basco asked for “a list of all the abbreviations that computer-savvy geniuses use, thinking we all KNOW what they mean!”Sorry, but I can’t provide you with every tech acronym in existence. That would require writing a very large book. And it would be out of date long before I could finish it. But I’ve provided a handful of the more common abbreviations.For the others, just search the web.[Have a tech question? Ask PCWorld Contributing Editor Lincoln Spector. Send your query to answer@pcworld.com.]BIOS: Basic Input/Output System. A chip on a PC motherboard that controls how the computer boots, then helps the hardware and software talk to each other.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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